1 Kings 12:5-7

New Century Version

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 Solomon during his lifetime, “How do you think I should 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, they will serve you always.”