1 Kings 12:6
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1 Kings 12:6
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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?"
1 Kings 12:7
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Then they spoke to him, saying, "If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their petition, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
1 Kings 12:8
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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.
1 Kings 12:9
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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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