1 Kings 12:6-8

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶ And King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon, his father, while he still lived, and said, “What counsel do you give, so that I may answer this people?”

⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, “If you are a servant to this people this day, and serve them, and answer them, and speak kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

⁸ But he forsook the counsel that the old men had given him, and asked counsel of the young men who had been brought up with him and waited on him.