2 Chronicles 10:3-7

3And the people sent messengers and summoned him. So when Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

4“Your father [King Solomon] made our yoke hard (heavy, difficult); so now lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

5Rehoboam replied, “Come back to me again in three days.” So the people departed.

6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon [as advisers] while he was alive, asking, “What advice do you give me in answer to these people?”

7They 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.”