2 Chronicles 10:4

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 12:4

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.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

1 Kings 4:25

So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 5:13

Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

1 Kings 5:15

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

1 Kings 9:22

But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.

2 Chronicles 10:3

And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

2 Chronicles 10:5

And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

Exodus 2:23

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

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.