2 Chronicles 10:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

He said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

Cross References

1 Kings 12:9

He said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

2 Chronicles 10:10

The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus should you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must lighten it for us’; tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

2 Chronicles 10:8

But he rejected the advice that the older men gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him.