²⁸ The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of Joseph.

²⁹ Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings; He won't serve obscure men.

³⁰ For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

⁶ "I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, And I will bring them back; For I have mercy on them; And they will be as though I had not cast them off: For I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

⁶ Seek Yahweh, and you will live; Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

²⁵ that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.

¹⁶ besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

²⁰ For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

²² The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.

²³ The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

⁵ They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.

¹² How can I myself alone bear your encumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?