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1 Kings 12:8

New International Version

But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

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They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.”

He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke,

Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise.

Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear.