⁶ King Rehoboam asked the elders who had ·advised [served; attended] Solomon during his lifetime, “How do you ·think I should [advise/counsel me to] answer these people?”

⁷ They said, “You should be like a servant to them today. If you serve them and ·give them a kind answer [^Lspeak good words], they will serve you always.”

⁸ But Rehoboam ·rejected this advice [^Ldisregarded/forsook the counsel given by the elders]. Instead, he asked the young men who had grown up with him and who served ·as his advisers [^Lhim].