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他们对他说:“如果王善待人民,使他们喜悦,对他们说好话,他们就必永远作你的仆人。”

听从少年人的计谋(A)

王不接受这些老人的意见,却去和那些同他一起长大,侍立在他面前的年轻人商议, 问他们:“这人民对我说:求你减轻你父亲加在我们身上的重轭吧。你们有甚么提议,我好回复他们呢?”

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他们回禀说:“王若善待这些百姓,使他们喜悦,对他们好言相待,他们会永远做王的仆人。”

罗波安却没有采纳老臣的意见。他又去征询那些和他一起长大的青年臣僚的意见, 说:“百姓求我减轻我父亲加给他们的重担。你们认为我该怎样回复他们?”

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They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them and give them a favorable answer,(A) they will always be your servants.”

But Rehoboam rejected(B) the advice the elders(C) gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. He asked them, “What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

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And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.

But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

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