- 羅波安之父所羅門在世的日子、有侍立在他面前的老年人、羅波安王和他們商議、說、你們給我出個甚麼主意、我好回覆這民.
- 老年人對他說、王若恩待這民、使他們喜悅、用好話回覆他們、他們就永遠作王的僕人。
- 王卻不用老年人給他出的主意、就和那些與他一同長大、在他面前侍立的少年人商議、
- 說、這民對我說、你父親使我們負重軛、求你使我們輕鬆些.你們給我出個甚麼主意、我好回覆他們.
- 那同他長大的少年人說、這民對王說、你父親使我們負重軛、求你使我們輕鬆些.王要對他們如此說、我的小拇指比我父親的腰還粗.
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- Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, "How do you counsel me to answer this people?"
- They spoke to him, saying, "If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."
- But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.
- So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, 'Lighten the yoke which your father put on us'?"
- The young men who grew up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us.' Thus you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins!
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