1Ki 12:6, 9, 2Ch 10:6, 9 | ESV | STEP | Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men , who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive , saying , How do you advise me to answer this people ?

1 Kings 12:6

6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

1 Kings 12:9

9 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”

2 Chronicles 10:6

6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, ^{▼▼Or the elders; also verses 8, 13} who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

2 Chronicles 10:9

9 And he said to them, “What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?”