2 Chronicles 10:7

7 "If you are kind to these people and try to please them by speaking gently with them," they replied, "they will be your servants forever."

2 Chronicles 10:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 12:7

(See Gill on 1 Kings 12:7).

2 Chronicles 10:7 In-Context

5 He answered them, "Come back in three days." So the people left.

6 King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive. "What do you advise?" Rehoboam asked. "How should I respond to these people?"

7 "If you are kind to these people and try to please them by speaking gently with them," they replied, "they will be your servants forever."

8 But Rehoboam ignored the advice the elders gave him and instead sought the counsel of the young advisors who had grown up with him and now served him.

9 "What do you advise?" he asked them. "How should we respond to these people who said to me, ‘Lighten the workload your father demanded from us'?"