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New Living Translation

1 Samuel 8:13

The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Baker;   Bread;   Confectioner;   Food;   Government;   Israel;   Monarchy;   Rulers;   Samuel;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Arts and Crafts;   Bakers;   House-Keepers;   Labour;   Manual Labour;   Woman's;   Women;   Work, Women's;   The Topic Concordance - Forsaking;   Hearing;   Idolatry;   Rejection;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arts of the;   Kings;   Tribute;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Samuel;   Spices;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Christ as;   King, Kingship;   Spirituality;   Wages;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Apothecary;   Bake;   Confectionaries;   Cook;   Taxes;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Confectioner;   King, Kingship;   Ointment;   Samuel;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Confection;   Israel;   Meals;   Perfumer;   Trade and Commerce;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baker;   Confection, Confectionary;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bake;   Law of Moses;   Ointment;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bread;   Confection;   Jotham;   Sanctuary;   Tax;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cooking-Utensils;   Government;   Spices;   Taxation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He can take your daughters to become perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Hebrew Names Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
King James Version
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Lexham English Bible
He will take your daughters as his perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers.
English Standard Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
New Century Version
He will take your daughters to make perfume and cook and bake for him.
New English Translation
He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.
Amplified Bible
"He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
New American Standard Bible
"He will also take your daughters and use them as perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He will also take your daughters and make them apoticaries, and cookes, and bakers.
Legacy Standard Bible
He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.
Contemporary English Version
Your daughters will have to make perfume or do his cooking and baking.
Complete Jewish Bible
He will take your daughters and have them be perfume-makers, cooks and bakers.
Darby Translation
And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
Easy-to-Read Version
"A king will take your daughters and force some of them to make perfume for him and some to cook and bake for him.
George Lamsa Translation
And he will take your daughters to be weavers and grinders and bakers.
Good News Translation
Your daughters will have to make perfumes for him and work as his cooks and his bakers.
Literal Translation
And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for yor doughters, he shall take the, to be Apotecaries, cokes and bakers
American Standard Version
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Bible in Basic English
Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he will take your daughters, and make them appoticaries, cookes, and bakers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
King James Version (1611)
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cookes, and to be bakers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and cooks, and bakers.
English Revised Version
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Berean Standard Bible
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he schal make youre douytris makeris of `oynementis to hym silf, and fueris, and bakeris.
Young's Literal Translation
`And your daughters he doth take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers;
Update Bible Version
And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take your daughters [to be] confectioneries, and [to be] cooks, and [to be] bakers.
World English Bible
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
New King James Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
New Life Bible
He will take your daughters to make perfume, work with the food, and make bread.
New Revised Standard
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, your daughters, will he take, - as perfumers and as cooks, and as bakers;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.
Revised Standard Version
He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"He will also take your daughters for perfumers and cooks and bakers.

Contextual Overview

4 Finally, all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel. 5 "Look," they told him, "you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have." 6 Samuel was displeased with their request and went to the Lord for guidance. 7 "Do everything they say to you," the Lord replied, "for they are rejecting me, not you. They don't want me to be their king any longer. 8 Ever since I brought them from Egypt they have continually abandoned me and followed other gods. And now they are giving you the same treatment. 9 Do as they ask, but solemnly warn them about the way a king will reign over them." 10 So Samuel passed on the Lord 's warning to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 "This is how a king will reign over you," Samuel said. "The king will draft your sons and assign them to his chariots and his charioteers, making them run before his chariots. 12 Some will be generals and captains in his army, some will be forced to plow in his fields and harvest his crops, and some will make his weapons and chariot equipment. 13 The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 8:18 - and the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
When Noah was 600 years old, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries,.... Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in various forms very agreeable to the taste. Men are commonly in our countries and times employed in such arts, but it seems this was the business of women in those times and places. Some versions d render it "unguentariae", makers or sellers of ointments, and such there were in some nations e, such was Lydia in Juvenal f;

and to be cooks; to dress all sorts of food, especially what were boiled, as the word signifies: and to be bakers; to make and bake bread, which though with us is the work of men, yet in the eastern countries was usually done by women; :-.

d So V. L. and Tigurine. e Vid. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 5. f Satyr. 2. ver. 141. Vid. Turnebi Adversar. l. 15. c. 17.


 
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