2 Chronicles 10:5-7

New Century Version

⁵ Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” 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 answered, “Be kind to these people. If you please them and give them a kind answer, they will serve you always.”