1 Kings 12:6-15 And king Rehoboam consults with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are you counselling to answer this people?.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ And king Rehoboam consults with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are you counselling to answer this people?. ⁷ And they speak unto him, saying, `If, to-day, you are servant to this people, and have served them, and answered them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to you servants all the days.. ⁸ And he forsakes the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consults with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him;" ⁹ and he said unto them, `What are you counselling, and we answer this people, who have spoken unto me, saying, Lighten [somewhat] of the yoke that your father put upon us?. ¹⁰ And they speak unto him--the lads who had grown up with him--saying, `Thus do you say to this people who have spoken unto you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, and you, make [it] light upon us; thus do you speak unto them, My little [finger] is thicker than the loins of my father;" ¹¹ and now, my father laid on you a heavy yoke, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I--I chastise you with scorpions.. ¹² And they come--Jeroboam and all the people--unto Rehoboam, on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, `Come back unto me on the third day.. ¹³ And the king answers the people sharply, and forsakes the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, ¹⁴ and speaks unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I--I chastise you with scorpions;. ¹⁵ and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Yahweh, in order to establish His word that Yahweh spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.