2 Chronicles 10:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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 forever.”