1 Kings 12:6-8 And the king laid the matter before the elders who stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, and said, How do you advise me to answer this people?

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁶ And the king laid the matter before the elders who stood before Solomon his father while he was alive, and said, How do you advise me to answer this people? ⁷ And they spoke to him saying, If thou wilt this day be a servant to the people and serve them and speak good words to them, they will then be thy servants, all thy days. ⁸ But he slighted the counsel of the old men, which they gave him, and consulted with the young men who had been brought up with him, and who waited on him,