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1 Samuel 8:15

He can take a tenth of your grain and your vineyards and give them to his officials and servants.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tithe;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Samuel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Christ as;   King, Kingship;   Spirituality;   Tithe, Tithing;   Wages;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Taxes;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - King;   Solomon;   Taxes;   Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chamberlain;   King, Kingship;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Tammuz;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   King;   Trade and Commerce;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Taxes;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Tithes;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assessor;   City;   Eunuch;   Jotham;   Member;   Mowing;   Seed;   Tax;   Tithe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eunuch;   King;   Taxation;   Ten;   Tithe;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
King James Version
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Lexham English Bible
He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and to his servants.
English Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
New Century Version
He will take one-tenth of your grain and grapes and give it to his officers and servants.
New English Translation
He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants.
Amplified Bible
"He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
New American Standard Bible
"And he will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and his servants.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he will take the tenth of your seede, and of your vineyards, & giue it to his Eunuches, and to his seruants.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
Contemporary English Version
He will also take a tenth of your grain and grapes and give it to his officers and officials.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will take the ten-percent tax of your crops and vineyards and give it to his officers and servants.
Darby Translation
And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his chamberlains and to his servants.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will take one-tenth of your grain and grapes, and he will give them to his officers and servants.
George Lamsa Translation
And he will take the tenth of your crops and of your vineyards, and give to his officers and to his servants.
Good News Translation
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your grapes for his court officers and other officials.
Literal Translation
And he will tithe your seed and your vineyards, and will give them to his eunuchs and to his servants.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Of youre sedes also and viniardes shal he take the Tithes, & geue vnto his chaberlaynes and seruauntes.
American Standard Version
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Bible in Basic English
He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he shall take the tenth of your seede, and of your vineyardes, and geue it to his eunuches, & to his seruauntes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
King James Version (1611)
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and giue to his officers, and to his seruants.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will take the tithe of your seeds and your vineyards, and give it to his eunuchs, and to his servants.
English Revised Version
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Berean Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your grain and vintage and give it to his officials and servants.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But also he schal take the tenthe part of youre cornes, and rentis of vyneris, that he yyue to his chaumberleyns and seruauntis.
Young's Literal Translation
And your seed and your vineyards he doth tithe, and hath given to his eunuchs, and to his servants.
Update Bible Version
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his slaves.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
World English Bible
He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
New King James Version
He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.
New Living Translation
He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it among his officers and attendants.
New Life Bible
He will take a tenth part of your grain and your vines to give to his leaders and his servants.
New Revised Standard
He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, your seed, and your vineyards, will he tithe, and give to his courtiers and to his servants;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.
Revised Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants.

Contextual Overview

4So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah. 5They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.” 6When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand wrong, so he prayed to the Lord. 7But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected me as their king. 8They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning me and worshiping other gods. 9Listen to them, but solemnly warn them and tell them about the customary rights of the king who will reign over them.” 10Samuel told all the Lord’s words to the people who were asking him for a king. 11He said, “These are the rights of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and put them to his use in his chariots, on his horses, or running in front of his chariots. 12He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties, to plow his ground and reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots. 13He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

officers: Heb. eunuchs, Genesis 37:36, Isaiah 39:7, Daniel 1:3, Daniel 1:7-10, Daniel 1:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:24 - the fifth part 1 Samuel 22:7 - give 2 Chronicles 18:8 - officers Nehemiah 5:15 - even their Esther 4:4 - chamberlains Hebrews 7:2 - a tenth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he will take the tenth of your seed,.... When grown up and ripe, as their wheat and barley:

and of your vineyards; the tenth of the grapes they should produce:

and give to his officers, and to his servants; for the support and maintenance of them; and to pay this, besides the tithes of the priests and Levites, would make it very burdensome to them; and this was no other than what kings of other nations usually had, the like to whom they were desirous of having, and therefore must expect that they would insist upon the privileges and revenues that others had. In Babylon, as Aristotle g relates, there was an ancient law which required the tenth of whatever was imported for the public revenue, which was revived in the times of Alexander by Antimenes the Rhodian. In Arabia Felix was an island abounding with frankincense and myrrh, and various spices, the tenth of the fruits of which the king always had, as Diodorus Siculus h reports, as in the Apocrypha:

"And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes and customs pertaining unto us, as also the saltpits, and the crown taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their relief.'' (1 Maccabees 11:35)

g Oeconomic. l. 2. p. 283. h Bibliothec. l. 5. p. 317.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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