Bible Verses About Young Men

Moshe came and told the people everything ADONAI had said, including all the rulings. The people answered with one voice: "We will obey every word ADONAI has spoken."

Moshe wrote down all the words of ADONAI. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the base of the mountain and set upright twelve large stones to represent the twelve tribes of Isra'el.

He sent the young men of the people of Isra'el to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to ADONAI.

King Rechav'am consulted the older men who had been in attendance on Shlomo his father during his lifetime and asked, "What advice would you give me as to how to answer these people?"

They said to him, "If you will start today being a servant to these people - if you will serve them, be responsive to them and give them favorable consideration, then they will be your servants forever."

But he didn't take the advice the older men gave him; instead he consulted the young men he had grown up with, who were now his attendants.

He asked them, "What advice would you give me, so that we can give an answer to these people who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father laid on us'?"

The young men he had grown up with said to him, "These people who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy; but you, make it lighter for us' - here's the answer you should give them: 'My little finger is thicker than my father's waist!

Yes, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will make it heavier! My father controlled you with whips, but I will control you with scorpions!'"

So Yarov'am and all the people came to Rechav'am the third day, as the king had requested by saying, "Come to me again the third day";

and the king answered the people harshly. Abandoning the advice the older men had given him,

he addressed them according to the advice of the young men and said, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke! My father controlled you with whips, but I will control you with scorpions!"

So the king didn't listen to the people; and that was something ADONAI brought about, so that he could fulfill his word, which ADONAI had spoken through Achiyah from Shiloh to Yarov'am the son of N'vat.

But he didn't take the advice the older men gave him; instead he consulted the young men he had grown up with, who were now his attendants.

(Bet) How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

young men and women alike, old men and children.

Let them praise the name of ADONAI, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above both earth and heaven.

The proverbs of Shlomo the son of David, king of Isra'el,

are for learning about wisdom and discipline; for understanding words expressing deep insight;

for gaining an intelligently disciplined life, doing what is right, just and fair;

for endowing with caution those who don't think and the young person with knowledge and discretion.

Someone who is already wise will hear and learn still more; someone who already understands will gain the ability to counsel well;

he will understand proverbs, obscure expressions, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

The fear of ADONAI is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

My son, heed the discipline of your father, and do not abandon the teaching of your mother;