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1 Samuel 8:14

"He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Israel;   Monarchy;   Rulers;   Samuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture-Horticulture;   Olive-Yards;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   Hearing;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;   Olive-Tree, the;   Tribute;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Samuel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Christ as;   King, Kingship;   Spirituality;   Wages;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Taxes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - David;   Doeg;   Saul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confiscation;   King, Kingship;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Tammuz;   Vine;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Trade and Commerce;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Olive olive-tree;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Olive;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jotham;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Confiscation and Forfeiture;   Taxation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He can take your best fields, vineyards, and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
Hebrew Names Version
He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
King James Version
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Lexham English Bible
He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive trees and will give them to his servants.
English Standard Version
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
New Century Version
He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his servants.
New English Translation
He will take your best fields and vineyards and give them to his own servants.
New American Standard Bible
"He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he will take your fieldes, & your vineyardes, and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his seruants.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants.
Contemporary English Version
The king will take your best fields, as well as your vineyards, and olive orchards and give them to his own officials.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will expropriate your fields, vineyards and olive groves — the very best of them! — and hand them over to his servants.
Darby Translation
And your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best, will he take and give to his servants.
Easy-to-Read Version
"A king will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves. He will take them from you and give them to his officers.
George Lamsa Translation
And he will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
Good News Translation
He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his officials.
Literal Translation
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards, the best, and give them to his servants.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Youre best londe and vynyardes, and oyle gardens shall he take, and geue vnto his seruauntes:
American Standard Version
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Bible in Basic English
He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he shall take your fieldes, and your vineyardes, and your best oliue trees, and geue them to his seruauntes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
King James Version (1611)
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliue-yards, euen the best of them, and giue them to his seruants.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your good oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
English Revised Version
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Berean Standard Bible
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he schal take youre feeldis and vyneris and the beste places of olyues, and schal yyue to hise seruauntis.
Young's Literal Translation
and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards -- the best -- he doth take, and hath given to his servants.
Update Bible Version
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his slaves.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.
World English Bible
He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
New King James Version
And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.
New Living Translation
He will take away the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his own officials.
New Life Bible
He will take the best of your fields and vines and olives, and give them to his servants.
New Revised Standard
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best of them, will he take, and give to his servants;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
Revised Standard Version
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive groves and give them to his servants.

Contextual Overview

4Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah 5and said to him, "Look, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint us a king to judge us [and rule over us] like all the other nations." 6But their demand displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge and rule over us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being King over them. 8"Like all the deeds which they have done since the day that I brought them up from Egypt even to this day—in that they have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods—so they are doing to you also. 9"So now listen to their voice; only solemnly warn them and tell them the ways of the king who will reign over them." 10So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them for himself to his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots. 12"He will appoint them for himself to be commanders over thousands and over fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and equipment for his chariots. 13"He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 22:7, 1 Kings 21:7, 1 Kings 21:19, Ezekiel 46:18

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:2 - Give me

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 8:13
Now in the six hundred and first year [of Noah's life], on the first day of the first month, the waters were drying up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and the surface of the ground was drying.
Genesis 8:14
On the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was [entirely] dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,.... Which includes the whole increase of their land, their corn, and wine, and oil; and it is these, the fruits of their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, which are here meant; for otherwise kings might not, and did not by their absolute authority, take away those from their subjects; otherwise Ahab would have taken away Naboth's vineyard at once, nor would Jezebel have needed to have taken such a method she did, to put Ahab into the possession of it:

even the best of them, and give them to his servants; for their service; and which some restrain to times of war, when necessity obliged to use such methods.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See illustrations in marginal references; 1 Kings 5:13-18; 1 Kings 12:4.


 
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