'Burden' in the Bible
So Moses asked the Lord, “Why have You brought such trouble on Your servant? Why are You angry with me, and why do You burden me with all these people?
Then I will come down and speak with you there. I will take some of the Spirit who is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
The king replied to Absalom, “No, my son, we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he wasn’t willing to go, though he did bless him.
David said to him, “If you go away with me, you’ll be a burden to me,
I’m now 80 years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Each day, one ox, six choice sheep, and some fowl were prepared for me. An abundance of all kinds of wine was provided every 10 days. But I didn’t demand the food allotted to the governor, because the burden on the people was so heavy.
If I have sinned, what have I done to You,Watcher of mankind?Why have You made me Your target,so that I have become a burden to You?
For my sins have flooded over my head;they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.
Cast your burden on the Lord,and He will sustain you;He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
“I relieved his shoulder from the burden;his hands were freed from carrying the basket.
A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.
I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals.They have become a burden to Me;I am tired of putting up with them.
On that dayhis burden will fall from your shoulders,and his yoke from your neck.The yoke will be broken because of fatness.
I will break Assyria in My land;I will tread him down on My mountain.Then his yoke will be taken from them,and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.
They will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers.Their idols are consigned to beasts and cattle.The images you carry are loaded,as a burden for the weary animal.
The gods cower; they crouch together;they are not able to rescue the burden,but they themselves go into captivity.
“Now when these people or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you will respond to them: What is the burden? I will throw you away”—this is the Lord’s declaration.
“As for the prophet, priest, or people who say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ I will punish that man and his household.
But no longer refer to the burden of the Lord, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, our God.
But if you say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ then this is what the Lord says: Because you have said, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ and I specifically told you not to say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’
Even though they hire lovers among the nations,I will now round them up,and they will begin to decrease in numberunder the burden of the king and leaders.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!’
Tell Daughter Zion,“Look, your King is coming to you,gentle, and mounted on a donkey,even on a colt,the foal of a beast of burden.”
For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision—and ours—to put no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
However, so that I will not burden you any further, I beg you in your graciousness to give us a brief hearing.
When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.
So in what way were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.
For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.
we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,
I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known the deep things of Satan—as they say—I do not put any other burden on you.
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