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’?”
Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines, yet we read but of one son he had to bear up his name, and he a fool. It is said (Hos 4:10), They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase. Sin is a bad way of building up a family.
Commenting on 1 Kings 12:1-15
And he said unto them, what counsel give ye, that we may answer this people, saying,.... See Gill on Kg1 12:4. . 1 Kings 12:10 kg1 12:10 kg1 12:10 kg1 12:10And the young men that were grown up with him, spake unto him, saying,.... Gave him the following advice: thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying; as is said, Kg1 12:4.
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? (c) There is nothing harder for them that are in authority than to control their desires and follow good counsel.