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1 Kings 12:8

New Century Version

But Rehoboam rejected this advice. Instead, he asked the young men who had grown up with him and who served as his advisers.

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Listen to advice and accept correction, and in the end you will be wise.

A wise warning to someone who will listen is as valuable as gold earrings or fine gold jewelry.

You did not accept my advice, and you rejected my correction.

You did not follow my advice and did not listen when I corrected you.

But Rehoboam rejected this advice. Instead, he asked the young men who had grown up with him and who served as his advisers.

They said, “You should be like a servant to them today. If you serve them and give them a kind answer, they will serve you always.”

Rehoboam asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who said, ‘Don’t make us work as hard as your father did’?”