2 Chronicles 10:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-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 advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And he said to them, What answer do you advise that we give to the demand of [these] people, Make the yoke your father put upon 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 said to me, ‘Lighten the workload your father demanded from us’?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he said to them: "How does it seem to you? Or how should I respond to this people, who have said to me, 'Lift up the yoke that your father imposed upon us?' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? Or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?

2 Chronicles 10:9 Cross References

1 Kings 12:9

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’?”

2 Chronicles 10:10

And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the 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.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

2 Chronicles 10:8

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.