1Sa 8:11-18, 1Ki 4:7, 20, 22-23, 25, 9:15, 22-23, 2Ch 10:4-5, Mat 11:29-30 | ESV | STEP | He said , These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots .

1 Samuel 8:11-18

11 He said, ^a“These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: ^bhe will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. 12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some ^cto plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 ^dHe will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. 15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. 16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men ^{▼▼Septuagint cattle} and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. 18 And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, ^fbut the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

1 Kings 4:7

7 Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for one month in the year.

1 Kings 4:20

Solomon’s Wealth and Wisdom

20 Judah and Israel were as many ^gas the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

1 Kings 4:22-23

22 Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors ^{▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters} of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, 23 ten fat oxen, and twenty pasture-fed cattle, a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened fowl.

1 Kings 4:25

25 And Judah and Israel ⁱlived in safety, ^jfrom Dan even to Beersheba, ^kevery man under his vine and under his fig tree, all the days of Solomon.

1 Kings 9:15

15 And this is the account of ^lthe forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and ^mthe Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and ⁿHazor and ^oMegiddo and Gezer

1 Kings 9:22-23

22 But ^pof the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves. They were the soldiers, they were his officials, his commanders, his captains, his chariot commanders and his horsemen.

23 These were the chief officers who were over Solomon’s work: ^q550 ^rwho had charge of the people who carried on the work.

2 Chronicles 10:4-5

4 ^s“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.” 5 He said to them, “Come to me again in three days.” So the people went away.

Matthew 11:29-30

29 Take my yoke upon you, and ^tlearn from me, for I am ^ugentle and lowly in heart, and ^vyou will find rest for your souls. 30 For ^wmy yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”