2 Chronicles 10:4

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

1 Kings 12:4

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

1 John 5:3

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

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.

1 Kings 9:22

But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

1 Kings 5:15

Solomon also had 70,000 burden-bearers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,

1 Kings 4:25

And Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beersheba, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

Exodus 2:23

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

1 Kings 5:13

King Solomon drafted forced labor out of all Israel, and the draft numbered 30,000 men.

2 Chronicles 10:3

And they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and said to Rehoboam,

2 Chronicles 10:5

He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.