2 Chronicles 10:7
World English Bible (WEB)
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.”
In context
5 He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.
6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”
7 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.”
8 But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
9 He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may give an answer to these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter’?”
2 Chronicles 10:7 in every translation
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.