Like their respective father’s, these two sons were righteous men. Also like their father’s they made different choices regarding whether the people should choose a king. Each of these sons made the same decision as his father. Pagag refused to be king when the people choose him as the oldest son of Mahonri. In fact, all the sons of Mahonri asking with all the sons of Jared except his youngest, Orihah, refused to be made king. We have know way to know how many of them refused based on their own witness of it being a bad idea and how many did so because of the discouragement of Mahonri towards the idea.
Orihah alone of these two sets of sons accepted the appointment to be king. Again we can’t know if this was because he trusted in his own righteousness of whether he worked that someone else might accept considering that the people had persisted through eleven rejections already.
As far as I can tell, there was peace and righteousness throughout his life. He never had evidence that his uncle had been right.
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