2 Chronicles 10:7-9

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁷ And they answered him, If you are kind to [these] people and please them and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.

⁸ But the king forsook the counsel which the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who were brought up with him and stood before him.

⁹ And he said to them, What answer do you advise that we give to the demand of [these] people, Make the yoke your father put upon us lighter?