¹⁵ And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

¹⁵ In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

¹¹ Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.

¹ Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;

⁶ I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

¹⁸ Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.

⁴ They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.