2 Chronicles 10:8 CPDV

⁶  he took counsel with the elders, who had stood before his father Solomon while he was still living, saying, 'What counsel would you give to me, so that I may respond to the people?'

⁷  And they said to him, 'If you please this people, and if you soothe them with words of clemency, they will be your servants for all days.'

⁸  But he set aside the counsel of the elders, and he began to have discussion with the youth, who had been raised with him and who were among his companions.

⁹  And he said to them: 'How does it seem to you? Or how should I respond to this people, who have said to me, 'Lift up the yoke that your father imposed upon us?'

¹⁰  But they responded like youths, having been raised with him in luxury, and they said: 'So shall you speak to the people, who said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy; you should lighten it,' and so shall you respond to them: 'My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.