1 Kings 12:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 1 Sam 8:11-18 : 11 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; 12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages. 13 Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. 14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants. 15 He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants. 16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work. 17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants. 18 Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.
  • 1 Kgs 4:7 : 7 And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.
  • 1 Kgs 9:15 : 15 Now, this was the way of Solomon's system of forced work for the building of the Lord's house and of the king's house, and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Megiddo and Gezer. ...
  • 1 Kgs 9:22-23 : 22 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. 23 These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.
  • 2 Chr 10:4-5 : 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. 5 And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • Matt 23:4 : 4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
  • 1 John 5:3 : 3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.
  • 1 Kgs 4:20-25 : 20 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. 21 And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life. 22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal; 23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls. 24 For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side. 25 So Judah and Israel were living safely, every man under his vine and his fig-tree, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

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  • 2 Chr 10:3-7
    5 verses
    97%

    3 And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

    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.

    5 And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.

    6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

    7 And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

  • 1 Kgs 12:3
    82%

    3 And all the men of Israel came to Rehoboam and said,

  • 1 Kgs 12:9-14
    6 verses
    80%

    9 And said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

    10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us; will you make it less? say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

    12 So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.

    13 And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;

    14 But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

  • 2 Chr 10:9-14
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    79%

    9 And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

    10 And the young men of his generation said to him, This is the answer to give to the people who came to you saying, Your father put a hard yoke on us, but will you make it less; say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's body;

    11 If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

    12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come to me again on the third day.

    13 And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

    14 But gave them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

  • 1 Kgs 12:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    5 And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

    6 Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

    7 And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

  • 2 Chr 11:3
    72%

    3 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

  • 1 Kgs 12:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27 If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.

    28 So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.

  • Neh 9:36-37
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    71%

    36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • Exod 1:13-14
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    70%

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

    14 And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

  • 2 Chr 13:8
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    8 And now it is your purpose to put yourselves against the authority which the Lord has put into the hands of the sons of David, and you are a very great number, and you have with you the gold oxen which Jeroboam made to be your gods.

  • 1 Kgs 12:1
    69%

    1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,

  • 1 Kgs 12:23
    69%

    23 Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the men of Judah and Benjamin and the rest of the people:

  • 1 Kgs 12:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

    17 (But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)

  • 1 Sam 8:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

    17 He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

  • Deut 1:12
    69%

    12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

  • Lam 5:8
    69%

    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Jer 27:12
    68%

    12 And I said all this to Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and become his servants and his people, so that you may keep your lives.

  • Deut 26:6
    68%

    6 And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:

  • Exod 5:16
    68%

    16 They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

  • 1 Sam 12:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14 If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord, but go against his orders, then the hand of the Lord will be against you and against your king for your destruction, as it was against your fathers.

  • 2 Chr 12:8
    68%

    8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

  • Neh 5:5
    68%

    5 But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    67%

    10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

  • Jer 27:2
    67%

    2 This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

  • Nah 1:13
    67%

    13 And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

  • Exod 5:4
    67%

    4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people away from their work? get back to your work.

  • Neh 9:16
    67%

    16 But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,