1 Kings 12:8

But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given [Heb. counselled ] him ["We can easily imagine that their proposal was not very agreeable to the rash and imperious young king, in whose veins Ammonite blood flowed" (Bähr) ], and consulted with the young men [see on verse 1. "The very change argues weakness.. Green wood is ever shrinking" (Hall)] that were grown up with him [possibly his companions in the harem], and which stood before him [ i.e; as his courtiers and counsellors (of. verse 6). The old men were the counsellors of Solomon ; the young men alone are spoken of as the ministers of Rehoboam.