1 Kings 12:7
They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then 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 said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.” Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!” It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.
- 1 Kings 12:13 The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,