6Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
7They replied, “If you will be kind to these people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
8But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
— 2 Chronicles 10:6-8