1 Samuel 8:16

Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The 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.

In Context

15Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.

17Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be 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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