5
He said to them, "Come to me again in three days." So the people went away.
6
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you advise me to answer this people?"
7
They answered him, "If you will be kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
8
But he rejected the advice that the older men gave him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.
9
He said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, "Lighten the yoke that your father put on us'?"
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