1 Kings 12:4 - Y'all Version Bible

⁴ “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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore lighten the hard service and the heavy yoke your father put upon us, and we will serve you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Common English Bible

⁴ “Your father made our workload very hard for us. If you will lessen the demands your father made of us and lighten the heavy workload he demanded from us, then we will serve you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ "Your father imposed a very harsh yoke upon us. And so, you should now take away a little from the very harsh rule of your father and from his very grievous yoke, which he imposed upon us, and we will serve you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Thy father laid a grievous yoke upon us. Now therefore do thou take off a little of the grievous service of thy father, and of his most heavy yoke, which he put upon us: and we will serve thee.

1 Kings 12:4 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 12:3

and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

1 Kings 4:7

Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

1 Kings 9:15

This is the reason of the forced labor which King Solomon conscripted: to build the house of YHWH, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy, grievous burdens and lay them on the shoulders of humans, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

1 John 5:3

For this is loving God, that we keep ʜɪꜱ commandments. Hɪꜱ commandments are not burdensome.