⁶ Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders^(A) who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

⁷ They replied, “If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer,^(B) they will always be your servants.”

⁸ But Rehoboam rejected^(C) the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.