2 Chronicles 10:8-10

Lexham English Bible

⁸ But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were serving^[a] before him. ⁹ And he said to them, “What do you advise that we should say in return to this people, who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father has put upon us’?” ¹⁰ Then the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus you should say to this people who have said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, so you yourself should lighten it for us.’ Thus you should say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.