Rehoboam answered, “Go away for three days and then come back to me.” So the people went away.
Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, “Come back to me in three days.”
Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.