2 Chronicles 10:4-6

Revised Geneva Translation

⁴ “Your father made our yoke grievous. Now, therefore, make the grievous servitude of your father, and his severe yoke that he put upon us, lighter. And we will serve you.”

⁵ And he said to them, “Come back to me in three days.” And the people departed.

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