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Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
4
“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
5
Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
6
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
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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 Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
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