1 Kings 12:6

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God; but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’ ”

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men came to Gedaliah to Mizpah.

Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,

The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”

Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”

Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

because you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.”

Let our lord now command your servants who are in front of you to seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp. Then when the evil spirit from God is on you, he will play with his hand, and you will be well.”

David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your counsel what we shall do.”

Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;

David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them enough for one hundred chariots.

of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May Yahweh look at it, and repay it.”

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

“Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

All the relatives of the poor shun him: how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud, for Yahweh has spoken.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the men of war, with the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

When Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, “You speak falsely. Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, ‘You shall not go into Egypt to live there;’

The king talked with them; and among them all was found no one like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore stood they before the king.

Hear this, you elders, And listen, all you inhabitants of the land. Has this ever happened in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Jesus himself, when he began to teach, was about thirty years old, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli,

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”