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2 Chronicles 10:4
“Your father made our yoke grievous. Now therefore make the grievous service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

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2 Chronicles 10:5
He said to them, “Come again to me after three days.” So the people departed.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.”

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Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

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1 John 5:3
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

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