2 Chronicles 10:9

Modern English Version

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’?”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:9

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’?”

2 Chronicles 10:10

The young men who had grown up with him said, “So you should speak to the people who have spoken to you saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it from us.’ So you will say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who stood in the presence of Solomon his father when he was alive saying, “How do you counsel that I should give a response to this people?”

2 Chronicles 10:8

But he abandoned the counsel of the elders that they gave to him. And he consulted the young men who grew up and stood before him.