1 Kings 12:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ 2 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Roboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying: Come to me again the third day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them and answer them with good words, they will be your servants forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

Common English Bible

⁷ “If you will be a servant to this people by answering them and speaking good words today,” they replied, “then they will be your servants forever.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ They said to him, "If today you will obey and serve this people, and yield to their petition, and if you will speak lenient words to them, they will be your servants for all days."

1 Kings 12:7 Cross References

1 Kings 12:13

8 Then king Roboam sent Aduram, who was over the tribute: and all Israel stoned him, and he died. Wherefore king Roboam made haste to get him up into his chariot, and he fled to Jerusalem:

1 Kings 12:8

3 And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,

Proverbs 15:1

The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

1 If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth secretly.

Zechariah 1:13

1 And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying: These are the horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the horns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of Juda to scatter it.