1 Kings 12:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ “Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke that he placed on us, and we will serve you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore lighten the hard service and the heavy yoke your father 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 hard for us. 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 imposed a very harsh yoke upon us. And so, you should now take away a little from the very harsh rule of your father and from his very grievous yoke, which he imposed upon us, and we will serve you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us. Now therefore do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us: and we will serve thee.

1 Kings 12:4 Cross References

1 Kings 12:3

And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,

1 Kings 4:7

Solomon had twelve officials over all Israel who provided food for the king and his household; each one had to make provision for one month in the year.

1 Kings 9:15

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of the Lord and his own house, the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, Gezer

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.

1 John 5:3

For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,