He said to them, “Go away for three days, then come again to me.” So the people went away.
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had said, “Come to me again the third day.”
Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”