2 Chronicles 10:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ However, Rehoboam rejected the advice that the elders had given him and proceeded to consult the young men who had grown up with him and who now attended him. ⁹ He said to them: “What reply do you advise me to give to this people who have requested that I lighten the yoke that my father imposed on them?”

¹⁰ The young men who had grown up with him replied: “This is the answer that you should give to this people who said to you: ‘Your father made our yoke heavy. We implore you to lighten it for us.’ Tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.