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Bishop's Bible

1 Samuel 8:16

And he shal take your men seruauntes, and maide seruauntes, young men, and the chiefe of your asses, and put them to his worke.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Government;   Israel;   Monarchy;   Rulers;   Samuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   Hearing;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ass, the Domestic;   Kings;   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;   Holman Bible Dictionary - King, Kingship;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Trade and Commerce;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assessor;   City;   Jotham;   Manservant;   Tax;   Young Men;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cattle;   King;   Taxation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He can take your male servants, your female servants, your best young men, and your donkeys and use them for his work.
Hebrew Names Version
He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
King James Version
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
Lexham English Bible
He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young men and your donkeys and will use them for his projects.
English Standard Version
He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
New Century Version
He will take your male and female servants, your best cattle, and your donkeys and use them all for his own work.
New English Translation
He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
Amplified Bible
"He will take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.
New American Standard Bible
"He will also take your male servants and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and use them for his work.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he will take your men seruants, and your maide seruants, and the chiefe of your yong men, and your asses, and put them to his worke.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will also take your male slaves and your female slaves and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.
Contemporary English Version
The king will take your slaves and your best young men and your donkeys and make them do his work.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will take your male and female servants, your best young men and your donkeys, and make them work for him.
Darby Translation
And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.
Easy-to-Read Version
"A king will take your men and women servants. He will take your best cattle and your donkeys. He will use them all for his own work.
George Lamsa Translation
And he will take your menservants and your maidservants, and your goodly young men and your asses, and put them to his work.
Good News Translation
He will take your servants and your best cattle and donkeys, and make them work for him.
Literal Translation
And he will take your male slaves and your slave-girls, and the best of your young men, and your asses, and will use them for his own work.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And youre seruautes and youre maydes, and youre best yonge men, and youre asses shal he take, and do his busynes withall.
American Standard Version
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
Bible in Basic English
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
King James Version (1611)
And hee will take your men seruants, and your mayd seruants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his worke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will take your servants, and your handmaids, and your good herds and your asses, and will take the tenth of them for his works.
English Revised Version
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
Berean Standard Bible
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli he schal take awey youre seruauntis and handmaydes, and beste yong men, and assis, and schal sette in his werk.
Young's Literal Translation
And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men -- the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;
Update Bible Version
And he will take your male slaves, and your female slaves, and your goodliest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your most choice young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.
World English Bible
He will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
New King James Version
And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, [fn] and your donkeys, and put them to his work.
New Living Translation
He will take your male and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle and donkeys for his own use.
New Life Bible
He will take your men servants and your women servants and the best of your cattle and your donkeys, and use them for his work.
New Revised Standard
He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, your men-servants, and your maidservants, and your oxen, even the goodliest, and your asses, will he take, - and put them to his work;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your servants also, and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, he will take away, and put them to his work.
Revised Standard Version
He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

Contextual Overview

4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered them together, and came to Samuel vnto Rama, 5 And sayd vnto him: Beholde, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in thy wayes: Now therfore make vs a king to iudge vs, as all other nations [haue] 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, geue vs a king to iudge vs: And Samuel prayed vnto the lorde. 7 And the Lorde saide vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they say vnto thee: For they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, that I should not raigne ouer them. 8 And as they haue euer done sence I brought them out of Egypt vnto this day, and haue forsaken me, and serued other gods, euen so do they vnto thee. 9 Now therefore hearken vnto their voyce: howbeit yet testifie vnto them, & shewe them the maner of the king that shall raigne ouer them. 10 And Samuel tolde all the wordes of the Lorde vnto the people that asked a king of him, 11 And he said: This shal be the maner of the king that shall raigne ouer you, he will take your sonnes and put them to his charets, and make his horsemen of them, to run before his charet. 12 And will make him of the captaines ouer thousandes and ouer fifties, and will set them to eare his grounde, and to gather in his haruest, & to make instrumentes of warre, and thinges that serue for his charets. 13 And he will take your daughters, and make them appoticaries, cookes, and bakers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 3:7 - threescore

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah: come thou and al thy house into ye arke: for thee haue I seen ryghteous before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah came, and his sonnes, and his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues with him to the arke, because of the waters of the fludde.
Genesis 7:13
In the selfe same day, entred Noah, and Sem, and Ham, and Iapheth the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wyfe, and the three wiues of his sonnes with the into the arke.
Genesis 8:16
Go foorth of the arke, thou, and thy wife, thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
Genesis 8:18
And so Noah came foorth, and his sonnes, his wyfe, and his sonnes wiues with hym:
Joshua 3:17
And the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, stoode drie within Iordane, redy prepared, and all the Israelites went ouer thorowe the drie, vntill all the people were gone cleane ouer thorowe Iordane.
Joshua 4:10
For the priestes whiche bare the arke stoode in the middes of Iordane, vntyll all was finished that the Lorde commaunded Iosuah to saye vnto the people, accordyng to all that Moyses charged Iosuah: And the people hasted, & went ouer.
Psalms 91:11
For he wyll geue his angels charge ouer thee: to kepe thee in all thy wayes.
Psalms 121:8
God wyll preserue thy goyng out and thy commyng in: from this tyme foorth for euermore.
Zechariah 9:11
Thou also [shalt be saued] through the blood of thy couenaunt: I haue loosed thy prisoners out of the pit wherin is no water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he will take your manservants, and your maidservants,.... Into his own family, for his own use and service, if he wants them, or likes them better than what he has:

and your goodliest young men: that are tall and lusty, comely and beautiful, of a proper stature and good aspect; and such in all countries used to be chosen for officers in courts, or attendants there; and so the Turks to this day pitch upon young men to attend on great personages, who are of a comely form, have admirable features, and are well shaped, :-,

and your asses, and put them to his work; employ them in ploughing his fields, drawing his carriages, or bearing his burdens; and so any other cattle that would serve the same purposes, as oxen, camels, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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