BRAGADAYJAH 1021
Rehoboam’s conflicting Advice
Based on his request for time to think, Rehoboam consulted
the old men who had served his father David, and asked them how they thought he
should answer the people. And they
replied to him and said; “If thou be a servant of the people this day, and
serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be
your servants forever. “ But Rehoboam
forsook the counsel of the old men which they gave him, and instead turned to
the young men who grew up with him, and who stood before him, and asked them what
advice they would give him to give to the people who had spoken to him and
asked him to make their burdens lighter.” And the young men who were his
companions told him to speak unto the people and tell them, “My father made
your yoke heavy; but you are asking me to make it lighter unto you; but I say
to you that my little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins. And now whereas my father did lay a heavy
yoke upon you, I will add to your yoke; my father had chastised you with whips;
but I shall chastise you with scorpions.”
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