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1 Kings 12:7-9
Christian Standard Bible
1 Kings 12:7-9
Christian Standard Bible
7 They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to this people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”(A)
8 But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him(B) and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him. 9 He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
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