Context 16He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work. 17He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. 18Then you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day. 19Nevertheless, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel, and they said, No, but there shall be a king over us, 20that we also may be like all the nations, that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles. 21Now after Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the LORDS hearing. 22The LORD said to Samuel, Listen to their voice and appoint them a king. So Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go every man to his city. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionAnd he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, 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; Library 'Make us a King''Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel, onto Ramah, 5. And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 6. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord. 7. And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me, … Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture The New Garment Bent Samuel Links 1 Samuel 8:16 NIV • 1 Samuel 8:16 NLT • 1 Samuel 8:16 ESV • 1 Samuel 8:16 NASB • 1 Samuel 8:16 KJV • 1 Samuel 8:16 Bible Apps • 1 Samuel 8:16 Parallel • Bible Hub |