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1 Kings 12:5-7
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5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served[a] his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them,[b] “How do you advise me to answer these people?” 7 They said to him, “Today if you will be a servant to these people and grant their request,[c] speaking kind words to them,[d] they will be your servants from this time forward.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:6 tn Heb “stood before.”
  2. 1 Kings 12:6 tn Heb “saying.”
  3. 1 Kings 12:7 tn Heb “and serve them and answer them,” understood as “serve them in how you answer them,” hence “grant their request.”
  4. 1 Kings 12:7 tn Heb “and speak to them good words.”
  5. 1 Kings 12:7 tn Heb “all the days.” The Hebrew phrase contrasts what he is asked to do “today” (literally “the day”) with the benefit for “all the days.”
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