1 Kings 12 9
He asked them, “What response do you advise that we send back to these people who have told me, ‘Lighten the burden your father put on us’?”
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KJV 1 Kings 12:9And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
EAS 1 Kings 12:9He asked them, ‘What do you think that I should say to these people? They want me to make their work easier.’
ERV 1 Kings 12:9Rehoboam asked them, “The people said, ‘Give us easier work than your father gave us.’ How do you think I should answer them? What should I tell them?”