5. Rehoboam replied, “Go home for three days and then return to me.” So the people left.
6. Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to these people? ”
7. They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to these people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
8. But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
9. He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’? ”