1 Kings 12:4
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.
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3And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
5And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:17He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
1 Kings 4:20Judah 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.
1 Kings 9:22But 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.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
1 John 5:3For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 12:2-16
The Folly of Rehoboam. ( b. c. 975.) 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) 3 That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his… Read the whole commentary →