“ Your father made our yoke harsh. You, therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“你父亲使我们负重轭，做苦工，现在求你使我们做的苦工、负的重轭轻松些，我们就侍奉你。”

“你父亲使我们负重轭，现在求你减轻你父亲所加给我们的苦工和重轭，我们就服事你。”

“你父亲使我们负重轭，现在求你减轻你父亲所加给我们的苦工和重轭，我们就服事你。”

“你父亲使我们负担沉重，求你减轻我们的负担吧，我们一定效忠你。”

“你父亲加给我们的重担，现在求你减轻你父亲使我们作的苦工和加在我们背上的重担，我们就服事你。”

「你父親使我們負重軛，做苦工，現在求你使我們做的苦工、負的重軛輕鬆些，我們就事奉你。」

「你父親使我們負重軛，現在求你減輕你父親所加給我們的苦工和重軛，我們就服事你。」

「你父親使我們負重軛，現在求你減輕你父親所加給我們的苦工和重軛，我們就服事你。」

「你父親使我們負擔沉重，求你減輕我們的負擔吧，我們一定效忠你。」

“你父親加給我們的重擔，現在求你減輕你父親使我們作的苦工和加在我們背上的重擔，我們就服事你。”

『你父親使我們的軛很難負；你呢，現在你使你父親那令人很難作的工、和他所加在我們身上的重軛、輕鬆些吧，我們就服事你。』

爾父使我儕負軛艱苦、爾其輕爾父之重軛、與艱苦之役事、我則服事爾、

爾父使我負重軛、操作維艱、爾其輕我、我則役事爾。

爾父使我負重軛、服役艱苦、今爾輕之、我則事爾、

“ Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father put a heavy load on our shoulders. But now make our hard work easier. Make the heavy load on us lighter. Then we’ll serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke heavy. Now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father was a hard master,” they said.“ Lighten the harsh labor demands and heavy taxes that your father imposed on us. Then we will be your loyal subjects.”

“ Your father made our yoke hard; but now, lighten the hard labor imposed by your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

“ Your father made our yoke difficult. You, therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

“ Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

“ Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

He said,“ These are the rights of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and put them to his use in his chariots, on his horses, or running in front of his chariots.He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties, to plow his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.He can take your best fields, vineyards, and olive orchards and give them to his servants.He can take a tenth of your grain and your vineyards and give them to his officials and servants.He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best cattle, and your donkeys and use them for his work.He can take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves can become his servants.When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won’t answer you on that day.”

Solomon had twelve deputies for all Israel. They provided food for the king and his household; each one made provision for one month out of the year.

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build the LORD’s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

“ Your father made our yoke harsh. Therefore, lighten your father’s harsh service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”Rehoboam replied,“ Return to me in three days.” So the people left.

Take up my yoke and learn from me, because I am lowly and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines and as far as the border of Egypt. They offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.Solomon’s provisions for one day were 180 bushels of fine flour and 360 bushels of meal,ten fattened cattle, twenty range cattle, and a hundred sheep and goats, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry,for he had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza and over all the kings west of the Euphrates. He had peace on all his surrounding borders.Throughout Solomon’s reign, Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan to Beer-sheba, each person under his own vine and his own fig tree.

But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.These were the deputies who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who supervised the people doing the work.