2 Chronicles 10:6-7

10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served ¹  his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, ²  “How do you advise me to answer these people?” 10:7 They said to him, “If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.” ³ 

[10:6]  ¹ tn Heb “stood before.”

[10:6]  ² tn Heb “saying.”

[10:7]  ³ tn Heb “If today you are for good to these people and you are favorable to them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”