“Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”
But of the children of Israel Solomon made no bondservants; but they were the men of war, his servants, his princes, his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel groaned because of the slavery. They cried, and their cry came up to God because of their slavery.