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1 Samuel 8:14 KJV
1 Samuel · chapter 8 · verse 14
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.1 Samuel 8:14 · King James Version
1 Samuel 8:14 in context
12And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
13And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
15And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- oliveyardszayithan olive , the tree, the branch or the berryH2132 →
- vineyardskerema garden or vineyardH3754 →
- servantsʻebeda servantH5650 →
- fieldssâdeha fieldH7704 →
- takelâqachto takeH3947 →
- bestṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
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We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were given to change and affected that which looked great.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-22