2 Chronicles 10:7-9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ They replied, ‘If you will be kind to this people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants for ever.’

⁸ But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him. ⁹ He asked them, ‘What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, “Lighten the yoke your father put on us”? ’