1 Kings 12:6-8

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⁶ Rehoboam talked it over with the old men who had counseled his father Solomon.

“What do you think I should do?” he asked them.

⁷ And they replied, “If you give them a pleasant reply and agree to be good to them and serve them well, you can be their king forever.”

⁸ But Rehoboam refused the old men’s counsel and called in the young men with whom he had grown up.