2 Chronicles 10:5-7

New International Reader's Version

⁵ Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people went away.

⁶ Then King Rehoboam asked the elders for advice. They had served his father Solomon while he was still living. Rehoboam asked them, “What advice can you give me? How should I answer these people?”

⁷ They replied, “Be kind to them. Please them. Give them what they are asking for. Then they’ll always serve you.”