He asked them, “How do you advise me ¹  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ² 

biblegateway 1Ki 12:9

So he said to them, "What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?"

He asked them, "What message do you advise that we send back to these people who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us'?"

He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we respond to these people who are asking me to lighten the burden my father put on them?"

biblegateway 1Ki 12:9

He asked them, "What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?"

And he said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father put on us'?"

bibleoremus 1Ki 12:9

He said to them, "What do you advise that we answer this people who have said to me, ‘Lighten the yoke that your father put on us’?"

he asked them, “What answer do you advise me to give to this people's request that I should lighten the yoke which my father laid on them?”

biblegateway 1Ki 12:9

And he said to them, "What advice do you give? How should we answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?"

And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?

biblegateway 1Ki 12:9

He asked them, “How do you advise me ¹  to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?” ² 

¹ tn In the Hebrew text the verb “we will respond” is plural, although it can be understood as an editorial “we.” The ancient versions have the singular here.

² tn Heb “Lighten the yoke which your father placed on us.”