1 Kings 12:4
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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1 Kings 12:4
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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1 Kings 12:1
And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
1 Kings 12:2
And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
1 Kings 12:3
And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
1 Kings 12:4
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.
1 Kings 12:5
And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
1 Kings 12:20
Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.
2 Samuel 5:3
So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord: and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel.
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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;
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.
1 Samuel 8:13
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
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.
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.
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.
1 Samuel 8:17
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
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.
1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.
1 Kings 9:22
But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.
1 Kings 9:23
These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.
1 Kings 4:7
And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
1 Kings 4:22
And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;
1 Kings 4:23
Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
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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1 Kings 11:28
And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.
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1 Kings 12:9
And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?
1 Kings 12:10
And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;
1 Kings 12:11
If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.
1 Kings 12:14
But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.
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1 Kings 5:13
Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;
1 Kings 9:15
Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
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.
1 John 5:3
For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
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Isaiah 9:3
You have made them very glad, increasing their joy. They are glad before you as men are glad in the time of getting in the grain, or when they make division of the goods taken in war.
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