1 Kings 12:6-8

Tree of Life Version

⁶ Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to respond to these people?”

⁷ They spoke to him, saying: “If you will be a servant to this people today, serving them, granting them their petition, and speaking favorably to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

⁸ But he rejected the counsel the elders had given him, instead consulting with the young men who grew up with him and stood before him.