YOKE, FIGURATIVE

Leviticus 26:13

13. I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your YOKE, and made you go upright.

Isaiah 9:4

4. For thou hast broken the YOKE of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

Isaiah 10:27

27. And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his YOKE from off thy neck, and the YOKE shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Jeremiah 2:20

20. For of old time I have broken thy YOKE, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

Jeremiah 5:5

5. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the YOKE, and burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 28:2-10

2. Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the YOKE of the king of Babylon.

3. Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:

4. And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the YOKE of the king of Babylon.

5. Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the LORD,

6. Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

7. Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people;

8. The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

9. The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.

10. Then Hananiah the prophet took the YOKE from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.

Jeremiah 30:8

8. For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his YOKE from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: