1 Kings 12:9

Modern English Version

and he said to them, “What advice do you give on how we should answer this people, who have spoken to me saying, ‘Make the yoke your father put on us lighter’?”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:10

And the young men who grew up with him said, “Thus shall you answer this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger will be thicker than my father’s loins!

1 Kings 12:8

But he rejected the advice that the old men gave him and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and who stood before him,

2 Chronicles 10:9

Rehoboam said to them, “What do you counsel that we give as a response to this people who have spoken to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father placed on us’?”