1 Samuel 8:13-17

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle^[a] and donkeys he will take for his own use.

17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

1 Samuel 8:13-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO FIRST SAMUEL 8

This chapter relates, how that Samuel being old, and his sons behaving ill, the people desired to have a king set over them, 1Sa 8:1-5, which case Samuel laid before the Lord, and he was directed by him to yield to the people's desire, but at the same time to set before them all the disadvantages and ill consequences that would arise from thence, which he did, 1Sa 8:6-18, but they insisting upon it, nevertheless, he gave them reason to expect that their request would be granted, 1Sa 8:19-22.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 46:18
• 2. 1 Kings 21:7,15; Micah 2:2
• 3. 2 Kings 22:12
• 4. S Genesis 41:34; 1 Samuel 17:25

Footnotes

• [a]. Septuagint; Hebrew "young men"