He answered them, “Come back to me in three days,” and the people went away.
“Your father put on us a heavy yoke. If you now lighten the harsh servitude and the heavy yoke your father imposed on us, we will be your servants.”
King Rehoboam asked advice of the elders who had been in his father Solomon’s service while he was still alive, and asked, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
Say not to your neighbor, “Go, come back tomorrow, and I will give it to you,” when all the while you have it.