They answered him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”
1 Kings 12:8 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional But he disregarded the advice that the older men gave him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and now attended him. Higit pang mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But he forsook the counsel the old men gave him and consulted the young men who grew up with him and stood before him. American Standard Version (1901) But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him. Common English Bible But Rehoboam ignored the advice the elders gave him and instead sought the counsel of the young advisors who had grown up with him and now served him. Catholic Public Domain Version But he abandoned the counsel of the old men, which they had given to him. And he consulted the young men who had been raised with him, and who were assisting him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he left the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and stood before him. |
They answered him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”
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’?”
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.
and because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise rebuke to a listening ear.