5
He said to them, Come again to me after three days. The people departed.
6
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people?
7
They spoke to him, saying, If you are 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 old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
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He said to them, What counsel give you, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter?