2 Chronicles 10:5-7

Complete Jewish Bible

⁵ He said to them, “Come back to me after three days.” So the people left.

⁶ King Rechav‘am consulted the older men who had been in attendance on Shlomo his father during his lifetime and asked, “What advice would you give me as to how to answer these people?” ⁷ They said to him, “If you will treat these people kindly, pleasing them and giving them favorable consideration, they will be your servants forever.”