2 Chronicles 10:4
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 they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,
5And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23Now 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.
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 5:15Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;
1 Kings 12:4Your 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.
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 2 Chronicles 10:2-12
Rehoboam Succeeds Solomon. ( b. c. 975.) 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king. 2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of Solomon the king, heard it, that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt. 3 And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying, 4 Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his… Read the whole commentary →