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"Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.
Genesis Chapter 49: Verse 14
So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
Exodus Chapter 1: Verse 11
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus Chapter 2: Verse 11
But the king of Egypt said, "Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!"
Then Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working."
Exodus Chapter 5: Verses 4 - 5
"Therefore, say to the Israelites: 'I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
Exodus Chapter 6: Verses 6 - 7
Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you.
Exodus Chapter 18: Verse 22
If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help him with it.
Exodus Chapter 23: Verse 5
"After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers Chapter 4: Verse 15
So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.
Numbers Chapter 4: Verse 19
"This is the service of the Gershonite clans as they work and carry burdens:
They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, its covering and the outer covering of hides of sea cows, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
the curtains of the courtyard surrounding the tabernacle and altar, the curtain for the entrance, the ropes and all the equipment used in its service. The Gershonites are to do all that needs to be done with these things.
All their service, whether carrying or doing other work, is to be done under the direction of Aaron and his sons. You shall assign to them as their responsibility all they are to carry.
Numbers Chapter 4: Verses 24 - 27
This is their duty as they perform service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases,
as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, ropes, all their equipment and everything related to their use. Assign to each man the specific things he is to carry.
Numbers Chapter 4: Verses 31 - 32
All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting
numbered 8,580.
At the LORD's command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry. Thus they were counted, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers Chapter 4: Verses 47 - 49
He asked the LORD, "Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
Numbers Chapter 11: Verse 11
I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone.
Numbers Chapter 11: Verse 17
But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?
Deuteronomy Chapter 1: Verse 12
David said to him, "If you go with me, you will be a burden to me.
2 Samuel Chapter 15: Verse 33
I am now eighty years old. Can I tell the difference between what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks? Can I still hear the voices of men and women singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
2 Samuel Chapter 19: Verse 35
Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,
1 Kings Chapter 5: Verse 15
"If you will not," said Naaman, "please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the LORD.
2 Kings Chapter 5: Verse 17
Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, 'Will I recover from this illness?' "
2 Kings Chapter 8: Verse 9
Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, "Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD made this prophecy about him:
2 Kings Chapter 9: Verse 25
He conscripted seventy thousand men as carriers and eighty thousand as stonecutters in the hills and thirty-six hundred as foremen over them.
2 Chronicles Chapter 2: Verse 2
He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.
2 Chronicles Chapter 2: Verse 18
The account of his sons, the many prophecies about him, and the record of the restoration of the temple of God are written in the annotations on the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.
2 Chronicles Chapter 24: Verse 27
had charge of the laborers and supervised all the workers from job to job. Some of the Levites were secretaries, scribes and doorkeepers. The Book of the Law Found
2 Chronicles Chapter 34: Verse 13
He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD : "Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles Chapter 35: Verse 3
Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall."
Nehemiah Chapter 4: Verse 10
who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other,
Nehemiah Chapter 4: Verse 17
In those days I saw men in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.
Nehemiah Chapter 13: Verse 15
When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.
Nehemiah Chapter 13: Verse 19
If I have sinned, what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?
Job Chapter 7: Verse 20
My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.
Psalms Chapter 38: Verse 4
Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.
Psalms Chapter 55: Verse 22
He says, "I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
Psalms Chapter 81: Verse 6
when men are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags himself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then man goes to his eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 12: Verse 5
For as in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.
Isaiah Chapter 9: Verse 4
In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.
Isaiah Chapter 10: Verse 27
I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders."
Isaiah Chapter 14: Verse 25
"In that day," declares the LORD Almighty, "the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down." The LORD has spoken.
Isaiah Chapter 22: Verse 25
See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke; his lips are full of wrath, and his tongue is a consuming fire.
Isaiah Chapter 30: Verse 27
Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden. The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.
They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.
Isaiah Chapter 46: Verses 1 - 2
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
Isaiah Chapter 58: Verse 6
This is what the LORD says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.
Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your forefathers.
Yet they did not listen or pay attention; they were stiff-necked and would not listen or respond to discipline.
But if you are careful to obey me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,
then kings who sit on David's throne will come through the gates of this city with their officials. They and their officials will come riding in chariots and on horses, accompanied by the men of Judah and those living in Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings, incense and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.' "
Jeremiah Chapter 17: Verses 21 - 27
"When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, 'What is the oracle of the LORD ?' say to them, 'What oracle? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.'
If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, 'This is the oracle of the LORD,' I will punish that man and his household.
This is what each of you keeps on saying to his friend or relative: 'What is the LORD's answer?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'
But you must not mention 'the oracle of the LORD ' again, because every man's own word becomes his oracle and so you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.
This is what you keep saying to a prophet: 'What is the LORD's answer to you?' or 'What has the LORD spoken?'
Although you claim, 'This is the oracle of the LORD,' this is what the LORD says: You used the words, 'This is the oracle of the LORD,' even though I told you that you must not claim, 'This is the oracle of the LORD.'
Jeremiah Chapter 23: Verses 33 - 38
The visions of your prophets were false and worthless; they did not expose your sin to ward off your captivity. The oracles they gave you were false and misleading.
Lamentations Chapter 2: Verse 14
"Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and the whole house of Israel who are there.'
Ezekiel Chapter 12: Verse 10
Although they have sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them together. They will begin to waste away under the oppression of the mighty king.
Hosea Chapter 8: Verse 10
You trample on the poor and force him to give you grain. Therefore, though you have built stone mansions, you will not live in them; though you have planted lush vineyards, you will not drink their wine.
Amos Chapter 5: Verse 11
"The sorrows for the appointed feasts I will remove from you; they are a burden and a reproach to you.
Zephaniah Chapter 3: Verse 18
The word of the LORD is against the land of Hadrach and will rest upon Damascus, for the eyes of men and all the tribes of Israel are on the LORD,
Zechariah Chapter 9: Verse 1
This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares:
"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem.
On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.
Zechariah Chapter 12: Verses 1 - 3
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Matthew Chapter 11: Verse 30
'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.'
Matthew Chapter 20: Verse 12
They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
Matthew Chapter 23: Verse 4
Jesus replied, "And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.
Luke Chapter 11: Verse 46
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements:
Acts Chapter 15: Verse 28
After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo.
Acts Chapter 21: Verse 3
For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
2 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verse 4
Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.
2 Corinthians Chapter 8: Verse 13
And when I was with you and needed something, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied what I needed. I have kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.
2 Corinthians Chapter 11: Verse 9
How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?
Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery!
2 Corinthians Chapter 12: Verses 13 - 16
Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Galatians Chapter 6: Verse 2
for each one should carry his own load.
Galatians Chapter 6: Verse 5
We were not looking for praise from men, not from you or anyone else.
1 Thessalonians Chapter 2: Verse 6
Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you):
Revelation Chapter 2: Verse 24
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