1 Kings 12:7-9

Revised Geneva Translation

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.

⁹ And he said to them, “What counsel do you give, so that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke which your father has put upon us lighter’?”