5
He said to them, "Return to me again in three days." So the people departed.
6
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?"
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They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever ."
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But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.
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So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?"