2 Chronicles 10:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Your father [King Solomon] made our yoke grievous. So now make lighter the grievous service of your father and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Common English Bible

⁴ “Your father made our workload very heavy; if you will lessen the demands your father made of us and lighten the heavy workload he demanded from us, then we will serve you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ "Your father pressed upon us a very difficult yoke. You should govern us more lightly than your father, who imposed on us a heavy servitude, and so lift up some of the burden, so that we may serve you."

2 Chronicles 10:4 Cross References

1 Kings 12:4

And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke which thy father put upon us lighter?

1 Kings 4:20

5 And Juda and Israel dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 4:25

0 And the wisdom of Solomon surpassed the wisdom of all the Orientals, and of the Egyptians,

1 Kings 5:13

8 And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

1 Kings 5:15

And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

1 Kings 9:22

7 And Hiram sent his servants in the fleet, sailors that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

2 Chronicles 10:3

But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, end began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.

2 Chronicles 10:5

0 But they answered as young men, and brought up with him in pleasures, and said: Thus shalt thou speak to the people, that said to thee: Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou ease it: thus shalt thou answer them: My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father.

Exodus 2:23

5 And the Lord looked upon the children of Israel, and he knew them.

Isaiah 47:6

4 Behold they are as stubble, fire hath burnt them, they shall not deliver them- selves from the power of the dames: there are no coals wherewith they may be warmed, nor fire, that they may sit thereat.

Matthew 23:4

2 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

1 John 5:3

2 He that hath the Son, hath life. He that hath not the Son, hath not life.