Catholic Public Domain Version
"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.” "
— 2 Chronicles 10:7, Catholic Public Domain 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.”
“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. ”
“They spoke to him, saying, "If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever."”
“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.””
“And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.”
“And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.”
“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.”
“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.”
But he said, “Return to me after three days.” And when the people had gone away,
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?”
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.”
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.
And he said to them: “How does it seem to you? Or how should I respond to this people, who have said to me, ‘Lift up the yoke that your father imposed upon us?’ ”
But they responded like youths, having been raised with him in luxury, and they said: “So shall you speak to the people, who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy; you should lighten it,’ and so shall you respond to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the back of my father.