⁶ Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been serving^[a] before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, “What word do you advise to answer this people?” ⁷ And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants forever.”^{[b] 8} But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were serving^[c] before him.