He asked, “What do you think I should say to these people who asked me to make their work easier?”
His younger advisers said: Here's what we think you should say to them: “Compared to me, my father was weak.
Rehoboam went to some leaders who had been his father's senior officials, and he asked them, “What should I tell these people?”
But Rehoboam refused their advice and went to the younger men who had grown up with him and were now his officials.