2 Chronicles 10:4

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Summary

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

Thy father

Grievous

Bible References

Thy father

And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

Grievous

And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

Judah and Israel were as great in number as the sand by the seaside, and they took their food and drink with joy in their hearts.

But Solomon did not put the children of Israel to forced work; they were the men of war, his servants, his captains, and his chiefs, captains of his war-carriages and of his horsemen.