1 Kings 12:5-7

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⁵ Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days, and then come back to me.” So the people left.

⁶ King Rehoboam asked the elders who had ·advised [served; attended] Solomon during his lifetime, “How do you ·think I should [advise/counsel me to] answer these people?”

⁷ They said, “You should be like a servant to them today. If you serve them and ·give them a kind answer [^Lspeak good words], they will serve you always.”