1 Kings 12:5-9

Then he said to them, “Depart for three days, then return to me.” So the people departed.

And King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Then they spoke to him, saying, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them and grant them their request, and speak pleasant words to them, then they will be your servants always.”

But he ignored the advice of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

He said to them, “What advice do you give, so that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”