1 Samuel 8:15
New International Version
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants.

New Living Translation
He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it among his officers and attendants.

English Standard Version
He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

Berean Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

King James Bible
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

New King James Version
He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.

New American Standard Bible
And he will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and his servants.

NASB 1995
“He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give to his officers and to his servants.

NASB 1977
“And he will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers and to his servants.

Legacy Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your seed and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

Amplified Bible
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

Christian Standard Bible
He can take a tenth of your grain and your vineyards and give them to his officials and servants.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He can take a tenth of your grain and your vineyards and give them to his officials and servants.

American Standard Version
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And of your grain and your vineyards he will take a tenth, and he will give it to his Eunuchs and to his Servants

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he will take the tithe of your seeds and your vineyards, and give it to his eunuchs, and to his servants.

Contemporary English Version
He will also take a tenth of your grain and grapes and give it to his officers and officials.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.

English Revised Version
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He will take a tenth of your grain and wine and give it to his aids and officials.

Good News Translation
He will take a tenth of your grain and of your grapes for his court officers and other officials.

International Standard Version
He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his officers and servants.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

Literal Standard Version
And he tithes your seed and your vineyards, and has given to his eunuchs, and to his servants.

Majority Standard Bible
He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.

New American Bible
He will tithe your crops and grape harvests to give to his officials and his servants.

NET Bible
He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants.

New Revised Standard Version
He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers.

New Heart English Bible
He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

World English Bible
He will take one tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers and to his servants.

Young's Literal Translation
And your seed and your vineyards he doth tithe, and hath given to his eunuchs, and to his servants.

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Context
Samuel's Warning
14He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants. 15He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants. 16And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 8:14
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 8:16
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.


Treasury of Scripture

And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

officers [heb] eunuchs

Genesis 37:36
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

Isaiah 39:7
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

Daniel 1:3,7-10,18
And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the princes; …

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1 Samuel 8
1. By occasion of the ill government of Samuel's sons, the Israelites ask a king
6. Samuel praying in grief is comforted by God
10. He tells the manner of a king
19. God wills Samuel to yield unto the importunity of the people














Verse 15. - The tenth. i.e. the king will cost you as much as all the ordinances of religion. Still national security would be cheaply purchased at this, or even a greater cost, if the money were well spent; but Samuel says that the king would lavish it not on his officers, but on his eunuchs, those miserable creatures, so cruelly wronged, and generally so hateful, who ministered to the pleasures of Oriental kings.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He will take a tenth
יַעְשֹׂ֑ר (ya‘·śōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6237: To tithe, to take, give a, tenth

of your grain
וְזַרְעֵיכֶ֥ם (wə·zar·‘ê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2233: Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

and vintage
וְכַרְמֵיכֶ֖ם (wə·ḵar·mê·ḵem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 3754: A garden, vineyard

and give it
וְנָתַ֥ן (wə·nā·ṯan)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to his officials
לְסָרִיסָ֖יו (lə·sā·rî·sāw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5631: A eunuch, valet, a minister of state

and servants.
וְלַעֲבָדָֽיו׃ (wə·la·‘ă·ḇā·ḏāw)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5650: Slave, servant


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