1-Samuel - 8:16



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

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Samuel 8:16.

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And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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.
Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.
And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.
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.
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;
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your best young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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.
Then, too, he will take your servants, and handmaids, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and he will set them to his work.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And he will take your manservants, and your maidservants,.... Into his own family, for his own use and service, if he wants them, or likes them better than what he has:
and your goodliest young men: that are tall and lusty, comely and beautiful, of a proper stature and good aspect; and such in all countries used to be chosen for officers in courts, or attendants there; and so the Turks to this day pitch upon young men to attend on great personages, who are of a comely form, have admirable features, and are well shaped; see Gill on Daniel 1:4,
and your asses, and put them to his work; employ them in ploughing his fields, drawing his carriages, or bearing his burdens; and so any other cattle that would serve the same purposes, as oxen, camels, &c.

Will take - By constraint, and without sufficient recompense.

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