2 Chronicles 10:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ He said to them, ‘Come to me again in three days.’ So the people went away.

⁶ Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, ‘How do you advise me to answer this people?’ ⁷ They answered him, ‘If you will be kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.’