1 Kings 12:9 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁹ And 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 upon us’?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ and he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He said to them, What do you advise that we answer this people who have said, Make the yoke your father put on us lighter?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?

Common English Bible

⁹ “What do you advise?” he asked them. “How should we respond to these people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the workload your father demanded of us’?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he said to them: "What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people, who have said to me: 'Make light the yoke that your father imposed on us?' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke which thy father put upon us lighter?

1 Kings 12:9 Krydshenvisninger

1 Kings 12:10

And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but do you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.

1 Kings 12:8

But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.

2 Chronicles 10:9

And 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 upon us’?”