And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

Ver. 13. And king Rehoboam forsook the counsel.]. Livy saith, Fatis urgentibus Rempublicam, omnia salutaria monita sperni; when a state is ripe for ruin, all wholesome counsels are fatally but foolishly slighted.

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