1 Kings 12:5-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁵ Rehoboam replied, “Go home for three days and then return to me.” So the people left. ⁶ Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders^(A) who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to these people?”

⁷ They replied, “Today if you will be a servant to these people and serve them, and if you respond to them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”^(B)