They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you.”
If the ruler’s temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders
Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise m
But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,