Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 10:7

"And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever." — 2 Chronicles 10:7 (ASV)

If thou be kind to this people. —A free paraphrase of, “If today thou become a servant to this people and serve them” (Book of Kings)—words which may have seemed inappropriate to the redactor, in connection with the king, but which form a pointed antithesis to the last clause of the verse, “they will be thy servants for ever.”

And please them. — Be propitious to them, receive them graciously (raçah). (Genesis 33:10). The Book of Kings states: “answer them.”