Your father made our yoke hard to bear: now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
And this is the reason for the levy which king Solomon raised; in order to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
For they bind burdens that are heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.