2 Chronicles 10:9

Easy To Read Version

Rehoboam said to them, “What advice do you give me? How should we answer those people? They asked me to make their work easier. And they want me to make the weight lighter that my father put on them.”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:9

Rehoboam said, “The people said, ‘Give us easier work than your father gave us.’ How do you think I should answer these people? What should I tell them?”

2 Chronicles 10:10

Then the young men that grew up with Rehoboam said to him, “This is what you should say to the people who talked with you. The people said to you, ‘Your father made life hard for us. It was like carrying a heavy weight. But we want you to make that weight lighter.’ But Rehoboam, this is what you should say to those people: Say to them, ‘My little finger will be thicker than my father’s waist!

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam talked with the older men who had served his father Solomon in the past. Rehoboam said to them, “What do you advise me to say to those people?”

2 Chronicles 10:8

But Rehoboam did not accept the advice the older men gave him. Rehoboam talked with the young men that had grown up with him and were serving him.