2 Chronicles 10:4

4 "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you."

2 Chronicles 10:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 12:4

(See Gill on 1 Kings 12:4).

2 Chronicles 10:4 In-Context

2 And it happened [that] when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard [it]--now he [was] in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon--Jeroboam returned from Egypt.

3 And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

4 "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you."

5 And he said to them, "In three days return to me again." And the people went away.

6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been {serving} before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "What word do you advise to answer this people?"