He said to them, “What counsel do y’all give? What answer should we return to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do y’all give me about how to answer these people?”
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Say this to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter on us!’ You should say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
He said to them, “What counsel do y’all give? How should we may answer these people who have said to me, saying, ‘You must lighten the yoke that your father put on us?’”