8 But Rehoboam refused their advice and went to the younger men who had grown up with him and were now his officials.
9 He asked, “What do you think I should say to these people who asked me to make their work easier?”
10 His younger advisers said:Here's what we think you should say to them: “Compared to me, my father was weak.
11 He made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”
12 Three days later, Jeroboam and the others came back.
13 Rehoboam ignored the advice of the older advisers. He spoke bluntly
14 and told them exactly what his own advisers had suggested. He said: “My father made you work hard, but I'll make you work even harder. He punished you with whips, but I'll use whips with pieces of sharp metal!”