1 Kings 12:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ They answered him, “If you become a servant to this people today and you serve them and you give them a favorable answer, then they will be your servants forever.”

⁸ But he ignored the advice that the elders had given him, and instead, he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and who stood before him. ⁹ He asked them, “What advice do you give me so that we can give an answer to this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke lighter than that which your father laid upon us?’ ”