3. and they sent for him.Then Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel came and they said to Rehoboam,
4. “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. If you now lighten the harsh servitude and the heavy yoke your father imposed on us, we will be your servants.”
5. He answered them, “Come back to me in three days,” and the people went away.
6. King Rehoboam asked advice of the elders who had been in his father Solomon’s service while he was alive, and asked, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
7. They replied, “If today you become the servant of this people and serve them, and give them a favorable answer, they will be your servants forever.”
8. But he ignored the advice the elders had given him, and asked advice of the young men who had grown up with him and were in his service.
9. He said to them, “What answer do you advise that we should give this people, who have told me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father imposed on us’?”