1 Samuel 8:13

He will also take your daughters and make them apoticaries, and cookes, and bakers.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Also he will make them his captaines ouer thousands, and captaines ouer fifties, and to eare his ground, and to reape his haruest, and to make instruments of warre, and the thinges that serue for his charets.

14And he will take your fieldes, and your vineyardes, and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his seruants.

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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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