2 Chronicles 10:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,

⁶ He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?

⁷ And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.