2 Tawarikh 10:5-7

10:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ²  “How do you advise me to answer these people?” 10:7 They said to him, “If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.” ³ 

¹ tn Heb “stood before.”

² tn Heb “saying.”

³ tn Heb “If today you are for good to these people and you are favorable to them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”