1 Kings 12:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ So he asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who have spoken to me saying: ‘Lighten the yoke that your father laid on us?’”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ and he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ He said to them, What do you advise that we answer this people who have said, Make the yoke your father put on us lighter?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And he said unto them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?

Common English Bible

⁹ “What do you advise?” he asked them. “How should we respond to these people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the workload your father demanded of us’?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And he said to them: "What counsel do you give to me, so that I may respond to this people, who have said to me: 'Make light the yoke that your father imposed on us?' "

1 Kings 12:9 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:10

The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him saying: “Thus you should say to these people who spoke to you saying ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us!’ thus you should say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins!

1 Kings 12:8

But he rejected the counsel the elders had given him, instead consulting with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.

2 Chronicles 10:9

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