2 Chronicles 10:4-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴ Thy father oppressed us with a most grievous yoke, do thou govern us with a lighter hand than thy father, who laid upon us a heavy servitude, and ease some thing of the burden, that we may serve thee.

⁵ And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,

⁶ He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?