5. He said to them: “Go away for three more days and then come back to me.” So the people departed.
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.
9. So he asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who have spoken to me saying: ‘Lighten the yoke that your father laid on us?’”