1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
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1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
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1 Kings 12:10
The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us’— tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.
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1 Kings 12:11
Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’ ”
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1 Kings 12:13
The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,
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