1 Kings 12:7-9

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ They said to him, “If today you become a servant to this people—if you serve them and answer them with kind words—then they will be your servants for all time.”^[a]

⁸ But he rejected the advice which the old men offered him. Instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. ⁹ He said to them, “What answer do you advise that we should give to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father laid on us’?”