2 Chronicles 10:6-14

6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people?”

7They replied, “If you will be kind to this people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

8But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him.

9He asked them, “What message do you advise we send back to this people who said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”

10Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

11Now therefore, my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.’”

12So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, just as the king had ordered, saying, “Return to me on the third day.”

13Then the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the elders’ advice

14and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.”