2 Chronicles 10:4

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

1 Kings 4:20

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

1 Kings 4:25

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

1 Kings 5:13

King Solomon raised a levy of forced labor out of all Israel; and the levy numbered thirty thousand men.

1 Kings 5:15

Solomon also had seventy thousand burden-bearers and eighty thousand hewers of stone in the hill country,

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.

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.

Exodus 2:23

In the course of those many days the king of Egypt died. And the people of Israel groaned under their bondage, and cried out for help, and their cry under bondage came up to God.

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.

Matthew 23:4

They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

1 John 5:3

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