Verse 4

Thy father made our yoke grieuous: nowe therefore make thou the grieuous seruitude of thy father, and his sore yoke, that he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 1:13-14 : 13 Wherefore the Egyptians by crueltie caused the children of Israel to serue. 14 Thus they made them weary of their liues by sore labour in clay & in bricke, & in al worke in the fielde, with all maner of bondage, which they layde vpon them most cruelly.
• Exod 2:23 : 23 Then in processe of time, the King of Egypt dyed, and the children of Israel sighed for the bondage and cryed: and their crie for the bondage came vp vnto God.
• 1 Sam 8:11-18 : 11 And he saide, This shall be the maner of the King that shall reigne ouer you: he will take your sonnes, and appoint them to his charets, and to be his horsemen, and some shall runne before his charet. 12 Also he will make them his captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer fifties, and to eare his ground, and to reape his haruest, and to make instruments of warre, and the thinges that serue for his charets. 13 He will also take your daughters and make them apoticaries, and cookes, and bakers. 14 And he will take your fieldes, & your vineyardes, and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his seruants. 15 And he will take the tenth of your seede, and of your vineyards, & giue it to his Eunuches, and to his seruants. 16 And he will take your men seruants, and your maide seruants, and the chiefe of your yong men, and your asses, and put them to his worke. 17 He will take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants. 18 And ye shall crie out at that day, because of your King, whom ye haue chosen you, and the Lord will not heare you at that day.
• 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Iudah and Israel were many, as the sand of the sea in number, eating, drinking, and making merry.
• 1 Kgs 4:25 : 25 And Iudah and Israel dwelt without feare, euery man vnder his vine, and vnder his fig tree, from Dan, euen to Beer-sheba, all the dayes of Salomon.
• 1 Kgs 5:15 : 15 And Salomon had seuentie thousand that bare burdens, and fourescore thousand masons in the mountaine,
• 1 Kgs 9:22 : 22 But of the children of Israel did Salomon make no bondmen: but they were men of warre and his seruants, and his princes, & his captaines, and rulers of his charets and his horsemen.
• 1 Kgs 12:4 : 4 Thy father made our yoke grieuous: now therefore make thou the grieuous seruitude of thy father, and his sore yoke which he put vpon vs, lighter, and we will serue thee.
• Isa 47:6 : 6 I was wroth with my people: I haue polluted mine inheritance, and giuen them into thine had: thou diddest shew them no mercy, but thou didest lay thy very heauy yoke vpon the ancient.
• Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules. 30 For my yoke is easie, & my burden light.
• Matt 23:4 : 4 For they binde heauie burdens, & grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.
• 1 John 5:3 : 3 For this is the loue of God, that we keepe his commandements: and his commandements are not burdenous.