1 Kings 12:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:3

And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

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 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 (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) .

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.