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1 Kings 12:6–8

Rehoboam asks the elders for advice but prefers that of the young men

6King Rehoboam sought counsel from the elders who had stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, saying, “How do you counsel me to answer this people?”

7They spoke to him, saying, “If today you are a servant to this people and serve them and answer them and speak good words to them, they will be your servants all the days.”

8But he abandoned the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him, and sought counsel from the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

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4“Your father hardened our yoke; now you, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you.”

5He said to them, “Go away for another three days, and come back to me.” And the people went away.

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9He said to them, “What do you counsel that we answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

10The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, but you, lighten it from on us’; thus you shall speak to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the waist of my father.

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