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Rehoboam replied, "Return to me in three days." So the people left.
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Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, "How do you advise me to respond to this people?"
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They replied, "If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever."
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But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones serving him.
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He asked them, "What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"