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Myles Coverdale Bible

1 Samuel 8:16

And youre seruautes and youre maydes, and youre best yonge men, and youre asses shal he take, and do his busynes withall.

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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he shal take your men seruauntes, and maide seruauntes, young men, and the chiefe of your asses, and put them to his worke.
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 ye Elders in Israel gathered the selues together, & came to Ramath vnto Samuel, 5 & saide vnto him: Beholde, thou art waxen olde, & thy sonnes walke not in yi wayes, set a kynge now ouer vs therfore, to iudge vs, as all ye Heithe haue. 6 The was Samuel displeased wha they sayde: Geue vs a kynge, to iudge as. And Samuel prayed before the LORDE. 7 The LORDE saide vnto Samuel: Herken vnto the voice of the people in all yt they haue sayde vnto the. For they haue not refused the, but me, yt I shulde not be kinge ouer them. 8 They do vnto the as they haue done euer, sence the daie yt I brought them out of the londe of Egipte vnto this daye, and haue forsaken me, and serued other goddes. 9 Herke now therfore vnto their voyce. Yet testifye vnto them, and shewe them the lawe of the kynge that shall raigne ouer them. 10 And Samuel tolde all the wordes of the LORDE vnto ye people, that requyred a kinge of him. 11 This shal be the lawe of the kynge yt shal raigne ouer you: Yor sonnes shall he take for his charettes, and for horsmen to runne before his charettes, 12 and to be rulers & captaynes, to be plowemen to tyll his londe and to be reapers in his haruest, and to make his harnesse, and soch thinges as belonge to his charettes. 13 As for yor doughters, he shall take the, to be Apotecaries, cokes and bakers

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 3:7 - threescore

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
And ye LORDE sayde vnto Noe: Go in to the Arcke thou & thy whole house: for the haue I sene righteous before me at this tyme.
Genesis 7:7
And he wente in to the Arcke, with his sonnes, his wyfe, and his sonnes wyues, for the waters of the floude.
Genesis 7:13
Vpon the selfe same daye wete Noe into the Arcke, with Sem, Ham and Iaphet his sonnes, and with his wyfe, and the thre wyues of his sonnes,
Genesis 8:16
Go out of the Arke, thou and thy wyfe, and thy sonnes, and thy sonnes wyues with the.
Genesis 8:18
So Noe wente out, with his sonnes, and with his wife, and with his sonnes wyues.
Joshua 3:17
And the prestes that bare the Arke of the LORDES couenaunt, stode drye in ye myddes of Iordane, readye prepared: & all Israel wete thorow drye shod, vntyll ye whole people were all come ouer Iordane.
Joshua 4:10
As for ye prestes that bare ye Arke, they stode in the myddes of Iordane, vntyll all was perfourmed that the LORDE charged Iosua to saye vnto ye people acordinge as Moses gaue Iosua in commaundemet. The people also made haist, and wente ouer.
Psalms 91:11
For he shall geue his angels charge ouer the, to kepe the in all thy wayes.
Psalms 121:8
The LORDE preserueth thy goinge out and thy comynge in, from this tyme forth for euermore.
Zechariah 9:11
Thou also thorow the bloude of thy couenaunt: shalt let thy presoners out of the pytte, 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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