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1 Samuel 8:14

And he will take your fieldes, & your vineyardes, and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his seruants.

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

4 Wherefore all the Elders of Israel gathered them together, and came to Samuel vnto Ramah, 5 And said vnto him, Beholde, thou art olde, and thy sonnes walke not in thy wayes: make vs nowe a King to iudge vs like all nations. 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Giue vs a King to iudge vs: and Samuel prayed vnto the Lord. 7 And the Lord said vnto Samuel, Heare the voyce of the people in all that they shall say vnto thee: for they haue not cast thee away, but they haue cast me away, yt I should not reigne ouer the. 8 As they haue euer done since I brought them out of Egypt euen vnto this day, (and haue forsaken me, and serued other gods) euen so doe they vnto thee. 9 Nowe therefore hearken vnto their voyce: howbeit yet testifie vnto them, and shewe them the maner of ye King that shall reigne ouer them. 10 So Samuel told all the wordes of the Lord vnto the people that asked a King of him. 11 And he saide, This shall be the maner of the King that shall reigne ouer you: he will take your sonnes, and appoint them to his charets, and to be his horsemen, and some shall runne before his charet. 12 Also he will make them his captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer fifties, and to eare his ground, and to reape his haruest, and to make instruments of warre, and the thinges that serue for his charets. 13 He will also take your daughters and make them apoticaries, and cookes, 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 sixe hundreth yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth, the seuetenth day of the moneth, in the same day were all the fountaines of the great deepe broken vp, and the windowes of heauen were opened,
Genesis 8:13
And in the sixe hundreth and one yeere, in the first day of the first moneth the waters were dryed vp from off the earth: and Noah remoued the couering of the Arke and looked, and beholde, the vpper part of the ground was drie.
Genesis 8:14
And in the second moneth, in the seuen & twentieth day of the moneth was the earth drie.

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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