10:6 King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served 1 his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, 2 “How do you advise me to answer these people?” 10:7 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.” 3
1 tn Heb “stood before.”
2 tn Heb “saying.”
3 tn Heb “If today you are for good to these people and you are favorable to them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”