2 Chronicles 10:7

7 They said to him, "If you will treat these people kindly, pleasing them and giving them favorable consideration, 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 said to them, "Come back to me after three days." So the people left.

6 King Rechav'am consulted the older men who had been in attendance on Shlomo his father during his lifetime and asked, "What advice would you give me as to how to answer these people?"

7 They said to him, "If you will treat these people kindly, pleasing them and giving them favorable consideration, they will be your servants forever."

8 But he didn't take the advice the older men gave him; instead he consulted the young men he had grown up with, who were now his attendants.

9 He said to them, "What advice would you give me, so that we can give an answer to these people who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father laid on us'?"