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2 Chronicles 10:4
Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

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2 Chronicles 10:5
And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

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1 Samuel 8:11
And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

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1 Samuel 8:12
And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

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1 Samuel 8:13
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.

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1 Samuel 8:14
He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

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1 Samuel 8:15
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

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1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

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1 Samuel 8:17
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

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1 Samuel 8:18
Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.

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Matthew 23:4
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

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1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

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