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1 Kings 12:6-8
Christian Standard Bible
1 Kings 12:6-8
Christian Standard Bible
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders(A) who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people?”
7 They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”(B)
8 But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him(C) and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.
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