2 Chronicles 10:5
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New International Version (©2011)
Rehoboam answered, "Come back to me in three days." So the people went away.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Rehoboam replied, "Come back in three days for my answer." So the people went away.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He said to them, "Return to me again in three days." So the people departed.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Rehoboam replied, "Return to me in three days." So the people left.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Come back again in three days," Rehoboam told them. So the people left

NET Bible (©2006)
He said to them, "Go away for three days, then return to me." So the people went away.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He said to them, "Come back the day after tomorrow." So the people left.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

American King James Version
And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.

American Standard Version
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,

Darby Bible Translation
And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.

English Revised Version
And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.

World English Bible
He said to them, "Come again to me after three days." The people departed.

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith unto them, 'Yet three days -- then return ye unto me;' and the people go.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-19 The ten tribes revolt from Rehoboam. - Moderate counsels are wisest and best. Gentleness will do what violence will not do. Most people like to be accosted mildly. Good words cost only a little self-denial, yet they purchase great things. No more needs to be done to ruin men, than to leave them to their own pride and passion. Thus, whatever are the devices of men, God is doing his own work by all, and fulfilling the word which he has spoken. No man can bequeath his prosperity to his heirs any more than his wisdom; though our children will generally be affected by our conduct, whether good or bad. Let us then seek those good things which will be our own for ever; and crave the blessing of God upon our posterity, in preference to wealth or worldly exaltation.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - This first reply of Rehoboam was not necessarily inauspicious. Yet sometimes, as it proved now, the caution that takes time to consider heralds fatal mistake. This is when either a generous, instinctive impulse, asking an instantaneous obedience, is chilled by some self-regard; or yet worse, when the offended Spirit is restrained, and no inner guiding voice is heard, as Saul found, to his ruin.

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Rebellion against Rehoboam
…4Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease you somewhat the grievous servitude of your father, and his heavy yoke that he put on us, and we will serve you. 5And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed. 6And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people? …

2 Chronicles 10:4 "Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you."
2 Chronicles 10:6 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.