Verse 9
2 Chronicles 10:9
Bible in Basic English
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And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵ/הֶ֗ם מָ֚ה אַתֶּ֣ם נֽוֹעָצִ֔ים וְ/נָשִׁ֥יב דָּבָ֖ר אֶת הָ/עָ֣ם הַ/זֶּ֑ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבְּר֤וּ אֵלַ/י֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר הָקֵל֙ מִן הָ/עֹ֔ל אֲשֶׁר נָתַ֥ן אָבִ֖י/ךָ עָלֵֽי/נוּ
English Translation
And he said to them, "What are you advising? We will reply to this people that has spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the burden that your father put on us.'"
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Chapter 10 Context
1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king.
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And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in fligh...
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And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
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Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us d...
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And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.
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Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was...
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And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, t...
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8
But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation...
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9
And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said t...
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And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came t...
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11
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips...
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12
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, sayi...
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And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the o...
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14
But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I...
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15
So the king did not give ear to the people; for this came about by the purpose of God (Elohim), so t...
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16
And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to...
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But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Jud...
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18
Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Isra...
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So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.
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