2 Chronicles 10:4
"Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you."
Exodus 1:13-14
And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the {Israelites} to work.
Exodus 2:23
{And then} during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites} groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.
1 Samuel 8:11-18
He said, "This will be the custom of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots.
1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel [were] as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing!
1 Kings 4:25
Judah and Israel lived in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
1 Kings 5:15
Solomon had seventy thousand {common laborers} and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country.
1 Kings 9:22
But from the {Israelites} Solomon did not make a slave, but they [were] the men of war, his officers, his commanders, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.
1 Kings 12:4
"Your father made our yoke heavy; now lighten the hard labor of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you."
Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give} them mercy; on [the] aged you made your yoke very heavy.
Matthew 11:29-30
Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 23:4
And they tie up heavy burdens and put [them] on people's shoulders, but [they] themselves are not willing with their finger to move them
1 John 5:3
For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,