4. “Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”
5. He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
6. King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”
7. They said to him, “If you are fair to these people, grant their request, and are cordial to them, they will be your servants from this time forward.”