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New Century Version

1 Samuel 8:17

He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

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 - 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 - Tithes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - King, Kingship;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   King;   Tithes;   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;   Jotham;   Tax;   Tithe;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Government;   King;   Taxation;   Ten;   Tithe;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He can take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves can become his servants.
Hebrew Names Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
King James Version
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
Lexham English Bible
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.
English Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
New English Translation
He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.
Amplified Bible
"He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves shall be his servants.
New American Standard Bible
"He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He will take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
Contemporary English Version
He will also take a tenth of your sheep and goats. You will become the king's slaves,
Complete Jewish Bible
He will take the ten-percent tax of your flocks, and you will become his servants.
Darby Translation
He will take the tenth of your sheep. And ye shall be his servants.
Easy-to-Read Version
He will take one-tenth of your flocks. "And you yourselves will become slaves of this king.
George Lamsa Translation
He will take the tenth of your sheep; and you shall be his servants.
Good News Translation
He will take a tenth of your flocks. And you yourselves will become his slaves.
Literal Translation
He will tithe your flock, and you will be servants to him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Of youre flockes shal he take the Tithes, and ye shal be his seruautes.
American Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
Bible in Basic English
He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he shall take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruauntes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He will take the tenth of your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.
King James Version (1611)
Hee will take the tenth of your sheepe, and ye shall be his seruants.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will tithe your flocks; and ye shall be his servants.
English Revised Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
Berean Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he schal take the tenthe part of youre flockis, and ye schulen be `seruauntis to hym.
Young's Literal Translation
your flock he doth tithe, and ye are to him for servants.
Update Bible Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his slaves.
Webster's Bible Translation
He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye will be his servants.
World English Bible
He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
New King James Version
He will take a tenth of your sheep. And you will be his servants.
New Living Translation
He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you will be his slaves.
New Life Bible
He will take a tenth part of your flocks, and you yourselves will be made to work for him.
New Revised Standard
He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Your flocks, will he tithe, - and, ye yourselves, shall become his servants.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.
Revised Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.

Contextual Overview

4 So all the elders came together and met Samuel at Ramah. 5 They said to him, "You're old, and your sons don't live as you do. Give us a king to rule over us like all the other nations." 6 When the elders said that, Samuel was not pleased. He prayed to the Lord , 7 and the Lord told Samuel, "Listen to whatever the people say to you. They have not rejected you. They have rejected me from being their king. 8 They are doing as they have always done. When I took them out of Egypt, they left me and served other gods. They are doing the same to you. 9 Now listen to the people, but warn them what the king who rules over them will do." 10 So Samuel told those who had asked him for a king what the Lord had said. 11 Samuel said, "If you have a king ruling over you, this is what he will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and his horses, and they will run in front of the king's chariot. 12 The king will make some of your sons commanders over thousands or over fifties. He will make some of your other sons plow his ground and reap his harvest. He will take others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to make perfume and cook and bake for him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:16 - he went 1 Samuel 17:8 - servants to Saul Hebrews 7:2 - a tenth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:22
God blessed them and said, "Have many young ones so that you may grow in number. Fill the water of the seas, and let the birds grow in number on the earth."
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 8:13
When Noah was six hundred and one years old, in the first day of the first month of that year, the water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.
Genesis 8:14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was completely dry.
Genesis 8:15
Then God said to Noah,
Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:7
"As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many."
Psalms 107:38
God blessed them, and they grew in number. Their cattle did not become fewer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He will take the tenth of your sheep,.... As well as of their seed and vineyards; and not the tithe of their flocks only, but of their herds also, which are here included, as Kimchi observes:

and ye shall be his servants: made slaves of by him, even as the Canaanitish servants were, according to Abarbinel; though others interpret it more mildly of their being obliged to pay tribute and taxes, for the support of his government.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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


 
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