And they spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to these people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever."
2 Chronicles 10:7
Surrounding context
10:6 Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon while he still lived, saying, "How do you advise me to answer these people?"
10:7 And they spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to these people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever."
10:8 But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.