1 Kings 12:7-9

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⁷ They said, “You should be like a servant to them today. If you serve them and ·give them a kind answer [^Lspeak good words], they will serve you always.”

⁸ But Rehoboam ·rejected this advice [^Ldisregarded/forsook the counsel given by the elders]. Instead, he asked the young men who had grown up with him and who served ·as his advisers [^Lhim]. ⁹ Rehoboam asked them, “What is your ·advice [counsel]? How should we answer these people who said, ‘·Don’t make us work as hard as your father did’ [^LLighten the yoke that your father put on us]?”