2 Chronicles 10:7
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
In context
5 Rehoboam answered, “Come back to me in three days.” So the people departed.
6 Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
7 They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
8 But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
9 He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
2 Chronicles 10:7 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
- KJV King James Version
- And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
- WEB World English Bible
- They spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And they speak unto him, saying, 'If thou dost become good to this people, and hast been pleased with them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And they spoke to him saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.