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And they sent for him, and he came with all Israel, and they spoke to Roboam, saying:
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Thy father oppressed with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.
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And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,
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He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?
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And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.