1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
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- Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
- 2 Samuel 15:3–5 Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.” And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.” Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
- 1 Kings 12:13 And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders