Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And they told him saying, "If thou shalt be kind to this people and please them and shalt speak loving words to them, they will be thy servants forever."
New American Standard Bible
They spoke to him, saying, “If you will be kind to this people and please them and
King James 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.
Holman Bible
They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
International Standard Version
In reply, they told him, "If you will be kind to this people, please them, and speak appropriately to them with kind words, they'll serve you forever."
A Conservative Version
And they spoke to him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
They answered him, saying, “If you are kind to these people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
And they spoke to 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.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will speak to him, saying, If thou wilt be for good to this people, and pleasing them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days.
King James 2000
And they spoke unto him, saying, If you are kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they said to him, "If you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants {forever}."
Modern King James verseion
And they spoke to him saying, If you are kind to this people and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.
NET Bible
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."
New Heart English Bible
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."
The Emphasized Bible
And they spake unto him saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak unto them kind words, then will they be thy servants, all the days.
Webster
And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.
World English Bible
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
And they speak unto him, saying, 'If thou dost become good to this people, and hast been pleased with them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.'
Themes
Candidate » Refuses to make promises
Kings » Who reigned over all israel » Rehoboam (first part of his reign)
Rehoboam » Refuses to reform abuses
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » Rehoboam, making the yoke heavy
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 10:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rehoboam's Debacle
6 And king Rehoboam counseled with elders that stood before Solomon his father, while he lived, and said, "What counsel give ye me, to answer this people again?" 7 And they told him saying, "If thou shalt be kind to this people and please them and shalt speak loving words to them, they will be thy servants forever." 8 But he left the counsel which the elders gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were nursed up with him and had stand in his presence,
Cross References
Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.
1 Kings 12:7
And they said unto him, "If thou shalt be a servant unto this people this day and serve them and answer them and speak kind words to them: they will be thy servants forever."
Genesis 49:21
Naphtali is a swift hind, and giveth goodly words.
2 Samuel 15:2-6
And thereto he used to rise up early in the mornings and to stand by the wayside that led to the gate of the city. And all the men of Israel that had complaints and came to the king for judgment, he called unto him, and said, "Of what city art thou?" And when the other answered, "thy servant is of such a tribe of Israel,"