2 Chronicles 10:4
“Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load your father imposed and the heavy demands he laid on us, we will serve you.”
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3The Israelite leaders sent for him. Jereboam and all the Israelites went to talk with Rehoboam.
5Rehoboam answered, “Come back in three days time.” So the people left.
Cross References
Exodus 2:23Years later, the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites were still groaning under their hard labor. Their cries for help because of their hardship reached God.
1 Kings 4:20Judah and Israel had become as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They ate, they drank, they were happy.
1 Kings 5:15Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,
1 Kings 12:4“Your father placed a heavy burden on us,” they told him. “But now if you lighten the load from when we served your father and the heavy demands he imposed on us, we will serve you.”
Matthew 11:29Accept my yoke, and learn from me. For I am kind and have a humble heart, and in me you will find the rest you need.
1 John 5:3Loving God means that we follow his commands, and his commands are not hard to bear.
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 →