1 Kings 12:4
“Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you should lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
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.
“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.”
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.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- our yoke
- 1 Kings 4:7, 20, 22, 23, 25; 1 Kings 9:15, 22, 23; 1 Samuel 8:11–18; 2 Chronicles 10:4, 5; Matthew 11:29, 30; Matthew 23:4; 1 John 5:3