2 Chronicles 10:6 CPDV

⁴  'Your father pressed upon us a very difficult yoke. You should govern us more lightly than your father, who imposed on us a heavy servitude, and so lift up some of the burden, so that we may serve you.'

⁵  But he said, 'Return to me after three days.' And when the people had gone away,

⁶  he took counsel with the elders, who had stood before his father Solomon while he was still living, saying, 'What counsel would you give to me, so that I may respond to the people?'

⁷  And they said to him, 'If you please this people, and if you soothe them with words of clemency, they will be your servants for all days.'

⁸  But he set aside the counsel of the elders, and he began to have discussion with the youth, who had been raised with him and who were among his companions.