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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'?"
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The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.' Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!