1 Samuel 8:13

Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

In Context

12And he will appoint of them to be his tribunes, and centurions, and to plough his fields, and to reap his corn, and to make him arms and chariots.

14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.

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Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 8:5-22

The People Desire a King; God's Answer to Israel; The People Insist on Having a King. ( b. c. 1075.) 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord . 7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that… Read the whole commentary →

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