1 Samuel 8:14
Good News Translation
He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his officials.

New Revised Standard Version
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers.

Contemporary English Version
The king will take your best fields, as well as your vineyards, and olive orchards and give them to his own officials.

New American Bible
He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his servants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.

1 Samuel 22:7 He said to his servants that stood about him: Hear me now, ye sons of Jemini: will the son of Isai give every one of you fields, and vineyards, and make you all tribunes, and centurions:

1 Kings 21:7,19 Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite. . . .

Ezekiel 46:18 And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.

Context
Samuel's Warning
13Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers. 14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your best oliveyards, and give them to his servants.15Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:13
Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

1 Samuel 8:15
Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give to his eunuchs and servants.

1 Kings 21:2
And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and adjoining to my house; and I will give thee for it a better vineyard: or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

1 Kings 21:7
Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.

Ezekiel 46:18
And the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by violence, nor of their possession: but out of his own possession he shall give an inheritance to his sons: that my people be not dispersed every man from his possession.

1 Samuel 8:13
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