2 Chronicles 10:5-7

The Message

⁵ “Give me,” said Rehoboam, “three days to think it over; then come back.” So the people left.

⁶ King Rehoboam talked it over with the elders who had advised his father when he was alive: “What’s your counsel? How do you suggest that I answer the people?”

⁷ They said, “If you will be a servant to this people, be considerate of their needs and respond with compassion, work things out with them, they’ll end up doing anything for you.”