Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 12:7

7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day , and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

By complying with their desires, and condescending to them for a season, till the troubled humours be quieted, and the opportunity they now have, and some of them that seek for Sedition, be gone, and thou beest better stablished in thy Throne. They use this expression, as fore-seeing that some would disswade him from this course, as servile or slavish, and below the Majesty of a Prince.

For, that is, Thy Service, say they, is not hard, it is onely a few good words, which it is as easie to give as bad ones.