说：“百姓求我减轻我父亲加给他们的重担。你们认为我该怎样回复他们？”

说：“这民对我说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你使我们轻松些’；你们给我出个什么主意，我好回复他们。”

他对他们说：“这百姓对我说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你减轻一些。’你们出个什么主意，我们好把话带回给他们。”

他对他们说：“这百姓对我说：‘你父亲使我们负重轭，求你减轻一些。’你们出个什么主意，我们好把话带回给他们。”

问他们：“这人民对我说：求你减轻你父亲加在我们身上的重轭吧。你们有什么提议，我好回覆他们呢？”

說：「這民對我說：『你父親使我們負重軛，求你使我們輕鬆些』；你們給我出個甚麼主意，我好回覆他們。」

他對他們說：「這百姓對我說：『你父親使我們負重軛，求你減輕一些。』你們出個甚麼主意，我們好把話帶回給他們。」

他對他們說：「這百姓對我說：『你父親使我們負重軛，求你減輕一些。』你們出個甚麼主意，我們好把話帶回給他們。」

說：「百姓求我減輕我父親加給他們的重擔。你們認為我該怎樣回覆他們？」

問他們：“這人民對我說：求你減輕你父親加在我們身上的重軛吧。你們有甚麼提議，我好回覆他們呢？”

問他們說：『這眾民對我說：「你使你父親所加在我們身上的軛輕鬆些吧」：你們給我出個甚麼主意，我好將答案回覆他們呢？』

曰、斯民謂我云、爾父加我之軛、求爾輕之、汝有何謀、以答斯民、

民來告我、父使眾所負之軛、必易以輕、汝何策以答之。

曰、斯民告我云、爾父加我之軛、求爾輕之、爾曹何議、當如何答之、

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’?”

He asked them,“ What’s your advice? How should I answer these people? They said to me,‘ Make the load your father put on our shoulders lighter.’ ”

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’?”

“ What is your advice?” he asked them.“ How should I answer these people who want me to lighten the burdens imposed by my father?”

He 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’?”

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’?”

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 return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that thy father did put upon us lighter?

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

And he said unto them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, which have spoken to me, saying, Ease somewhat the yoke that thy father did put upon us?

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’?”

He said to them,“ What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying,‘ Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

罗波安王去征询曾服侍他父亲所罗门的老臣的意见，说：“你们认为我该怎样回复这些百姓？”

押沙龙说：“召亚基人户筛进来，我们也听听他的意见。”户筛来了，押沙龙就把亚希多弗的建议告诉他，问他：“我们应该照亚希多弗的提议去做吗？如果不可行，说说你的看法吧。”

于是，以色列王就召来了大约四百名先知，问他们：“我可以去攻打基列的拉末吗？”他们说：“可以去，主必把那城交在王手中。”但约沙法问：“这里没有耶和华的先知供我们求问吗？”以色列王回答说：“这里还有一个人，是音拉的儿子米该雅，我们可以托他求问耶和华。可是我厌恶他，因为他给我的预言都是有凶无吉。”约沙法说：“王不要这样说。”