1 KINGS 12:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And 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?”
He said to them, 'What do you advise? How should I answer this people who have said to me, "Lighten the yoke that your father put on us"?' — Rehoboam frames the people's petition not as a reasonable complaint but as a challenge to his authority, a threat that demands a forceful response. His question reveals his posture: he is not asking how to serve wisely but how to assert dominance. The repeated reference to "yoke" underscores the substance of the people's grievance, which Rehoboam dismisses by treating it as a matter of credibility rather than justice.
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