1 Kings 12:6-8 And king Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had been standing before the face of his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, How do you advise in order to answer this people?

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ And king Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had been standing before the face of his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, How do you advise in order to answer this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, If you are servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them and speak to them good words, then they will be servants to you forever. ⁸ But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they advised him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, who were standing before him.