2 Chronicles 10:7-9

Revised Geneva Translation

⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak loving words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

⁸ But he rejected the counsel of the ancient men that they had given him and took counsel of the young men who were brought up with him and waited on him.

⁹ And he said to them, “What counsel do you give, so that we may answer these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke which your father put upon us, lighter’?”