2 Chronicles 10:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ while King Rehoboam conferred with his advisors who had worked with his father Solomon during his administration. He asked them, “What is your advice as to what response I should return to these people?”

⁷ In reply, they told him, “If you will be kind to this people, please them, and speak appropriately to them with kind words, they’ll serve you forever.”

⁸ But Rehoboam^[a] ignored the counsel that his elder advisors had given him. Instead, he consulted the younger men who had grown up with him and worked for^[b] him.