Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 12:8

8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men , which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him , and which stood before him.

Judging it unworthy of his Majesty and Authority, and likely to encourage and increase the People in their Insolent Demands.

So called comparatively to the Old Men; otherwise they were near 40 years old, as the following words imply.

Which is added as the reason of his inclination to their Counsels, because his daily converse with them, and the likeness of their Age and Humour to his, had engaged his Affections to them, and that bribed his judgment, as it commonly doth.