1 Samuel 8:16
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New International Version (©1984)
Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He will take your male and female slaves and demand the finest of your cattle and donkeys for his own use.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He will take your male and female slaves, your best cattle, and your donkeys for his own use.

King James Bible
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

American King James Version
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your best young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

American Standard Version
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

Bible in Basic English
He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

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

Darby Bible Translation
And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.

English Revised Version
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your most choice young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

World English Bible
He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

Young's Literal Translation
And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men -- the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;

Geneva Study Bible

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

Wesley's Notes

8:16 Will take - By constraint, and without sufficient recompense.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:10-22 If they would have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings ruled their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those that submit to the government of the world and the flesh, are told plainly, what hard masters they are, and what tyranny the dominion of sin is. The law of God and the manner of men widely differ from each other; the former should be our rule in the several relations of life; the latter should be the measure of our expectations from others. These would be their grievances, and, when they complained to God, he would not hear them. When we bring ourselves into distress by our own wrong desires and projects, we justly forfeit the comfort of prayer, and the benefit of Divine aid. The people were obstinate and urgent in their demand. Sudden resolves and hasty desires make work for long and leisurely repentance. Our wisdom is, to be thankful for the advantages, and patient under the disadvantages of the government we may live under; and to pray continually for our rulers, that they may govern us in the fear of God, and that we may live under them in all godliness and honesty. And it is a hopeful symptom when our desires of worldly objects can brook delay; and when we can refer the time and manner of their being granted to God's providence.


1 Samuel 8:15 "He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:17 "He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. (NASB ©1995)

Asses Best Bondmen Bondwomen Cattle Choice Donkeys Maidservants Maid-Servants Male Menservants Men-Servants Oxen Prepared Servant-Girls Servants Use Work Young

And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

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