2 Chronicles 10:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ And he said to them, “Come back to me in three days.” And the people departed.

⁶ And King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon, his father, while he still lived, saying, “What counsel do you give, so that I may answer these people?”

⁷ And they spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak loving words to them, they will be your servants forever.”