2 Chronicles 10:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They answered him, “If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And they answered him, If you are kind to [these] people and please them and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

“If you are kind to these people and try to please them by speaking gently with them,” they replied, “they will be your servants forever.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they said to him, "If you please this people, and if you soothe them with words of clemency, they will be your servants for all days."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.

2 Chronicles 10:7 Cross References

Genesis 49:21

Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears lovely fawns.

1 Kings 12:7

They answered him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.