Sinai2 Chronicles 10:7
World English Bible
They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
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2 Chronicles 10:7 in other translations
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
2 Chronicles 10:7 in context
- 5He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.”
So the people departed. - 6King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”
- 7They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
- 8But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
- 9He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’ ”