1 Kings 12:4 Cross References - JuliaSmith

⁴ Thy father made our yoke hard and now do thou lighten from the hard service of thy father, and from the heavy yoke which he gave upon us, and we will serve thee.

¹¹ And he will say, This shall be the judgment of the king who shall reign over you: your sons he will take and set for himself, for his chariots and for his horsemen; and running before his chariots. ¹² And to set to himself captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and to plough his ploughing and to reap his harvest, and to do all his fighting and all his chariots. ¹³ And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers. ¹⁴ And your fields and your vineyards, and your olive trees, the good he will take and give to his servants. ¹⁵ And of your seeds and of your vineyards he will take the tenth and give to his eunuchs and to his servants. ¹⁶ And your servants and your maids, and your good young men, and your asses, he will take and make for his services. ¹⁷ And of your sheep he will take the tenth: and ye shall be to him for servants. ¹⁸ And ye cried out in that day from before your king which ye chose to yourselves; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

⁷ And to Solomon, twelve, set over all Israel, and they furnished the king and his house: a month in the year will be for one to furnish.

²⁰ Judah and Israel many as the sand which is by the sea for multitude, eating and drinking and rejoicing. ²¹ And Solomon was ruling over all kingdoms from the river to the land of the rovers, and even to the bound of Egypt: they were bringing a gift and serving Solomon all the days of his life. ²² And the bread of Solomon for one day will be thirty cors of fine flour, and sixty cors of meal, ²³ Ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen of the shepherd, and a hundred sheep, besides from the stag and the roe and the fallow deer, and fowls fattened. ²⁴ For he ruled over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and even to Azzah, over all the kings beyond the river: and there was peace to him from all his servants from round about ²⁵ And Judah dwelt, and Israel, with confidence, a man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan and even to the Well of the Oath, all the days of Solomon.

¹⁵ And this the word of tribute which king Solomon brought up to build the house of Jehovah, and his house, and the fortress, and the walls of Jerusalem, and the enclosure, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

²² And of the sons of Israel, Solomon gave not to serve, for they were men of war, and his servants and his chiefs, and his warriors, and chiefs of chariots, and his horsemen. ²³ These the chiefs being stationed which were over the work to Solomon, fifty and five hundred going down among the people working in the work

⁴ Thy father hardened our yoke: and now lighten from the hard servitude of thy father, and from his heavy yoke which he gave upon us, and we will serve thee. ⁵ And he will say to them, Yet three days and turn back to me. And the people will go.

²⁹ Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is useful, and my load is light.

⁴ For they bind loads heavy and difficult to carry, and put upon men's shoulders; and with their fingers will they not move them.

³ For this is the love of God, that we keep his commands: and his commands are not heavy.