He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.
They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finge
“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald
After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,
So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.