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Literal Standard Version

1 Samuel 8:14

and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards—he takes the best, and has given 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.
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.
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

4And all [the] elderly of Israel gather themselves together, and come to Samuel at Ramath, 5and say to him, "Behold, you have become aged, and your sons have not walked in your ways; now, appoint a king to us, to judge us, like all the nations." 6And the thing is evil in the eyes of Samuel when they have said, "Give a king to us, to judge us"; and Samuel prays to YHWH. 7And YHWH says to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people, to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from reigning over them. 8According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even to this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods—so they are also doing to you. 9And now, listen to their voice; only, surely you certainly protest to them, and have declared to them the custom of the king who reigns over them." 10And Samuel speaks all the words of YHWH to the people who are asking [for] a king from him, 11and says, "This is the custom of the king who reigns over you: he takes your sons, and has appointed for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen, and they have run before his chariots; 12also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer. 13And he takes your daughters for perfumers, and for cooks, and for 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 the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,
Genesis 8:13
And it comes to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, the waters have been dried from off the earth; and Noah turns aside the covering of the ark, and looks, and behold, the face of the ground has been dried.
Genesis 8:14
And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth has become 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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