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Read›1 Samuel›Chapter 8

Samuel’s Warning

1 Samuel 8:14

In 11 translations

BSB
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.
KJV
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
WEB
He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even your best, and give them to his servants.
ASV
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
LSV
and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards—he takes the best, and has given to his servants.
YLT
and your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards — the best — he doth take, and hath given to his servants.
DBY
And your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, the best, will he take and give to his servants.
DRC
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.
GNV
And he will take your fieldes, and your vineyardes, and your best Oliue trees, and giue them to his seruants.
JPS
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
LXXE
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your good oliveyards, and give them to his servants.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְאֶת־שְׂ֠דֽוֹתֵיכֶם וְאֶת־כַּרְמֵיכֶ֧ם וְזֵיתֵיכֶ֛ם הַטּוֹבִ֖ים יִקָּ֑ח וְנָתַ֖ן לַעֲבָדָֽיו׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ τοὺς ἀγροὺς ὑμῶν, καὶ τοὺς ἀμπελῶνας ὑμῶν, καὶ τοὺς ἐλαιῶνας ὑμῶν τοὺς ἀγαθοὺς λήψεται, καὶ δώσει τοῖς δούλοις ἑαυτοῦ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ezekiel 46:18The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from…
  • 1 Kings 21:7But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
  • 1 Samuel 22:7Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
  • 1 Kings 21:19Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also…

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