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1 Kings 12:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
1 Kings 12:7-9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 They answered him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”(A) 8 But he disregarded the advice that the older men gave him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.(B) 9 He said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”
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