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1 Kings 12:8-9
Rehoboam turns to his peers
The Kingdom Divides · 1 Kings 12
Story guide: Rehoboam turns from the elders to the young men he grew up with and asks how to answer the people's request; their faces and the room are not described in the passage.
Open this scene in the reader →8But he rejected the advice the elders had given him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.
9He said to them, “What answer do you advise us to give these people, who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father laid on us’?”
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