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1 Kings 12:4
“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

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1 Kings 12:3
and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

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1 Samuel 8:11
He said, “This will be the way of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them as his servants, for his chariots and to be his horsemen; and they will run before his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots.

1 Samuel 8:13
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.

1 Samuel 8:14
He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:15
He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:16
He will take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys, and assign them to his own work.

1 Samuel 8:17
He will take one tenth of your flocks; and you will be his servants.

1 Samuel 8:18
You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”

1 Kings 4:7
Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

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1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

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1 Kings 9:22
But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

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1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,

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1 Kings 11:28
The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

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