Text -- 1 Kings 12:9 (NET)

12:9 He asked them, “How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lessen the demands your father placed on us’?”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ki 12:9

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.”