Bible Verse

Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

2 Chronicles 10:6

They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”

2 Chronicles 10:7

But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

2 Chronicles 10:8

He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us`?”