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Selected Verse: 1 Samuel 8:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Sa 8:14 |
Strong Concordance |
And he will take [03947] your fields [07704], and your vineyards [03754], and your oliveyards [02132], even the best [02896] of them, and give [05414] them to his servants [05650]. |
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King James |
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| he will take your fields, &c.--The circumstances mentioned here might be illustrated by exact analogies in the conduct of many Oriental monarchs in the present day. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| See illustrations in marginal references; Kg1 5:13-18; Kg1 12:4. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Your fields - By fraud or force, as Ahab did from Naboth. His servants - He will not only take the fruits of your lands for his own use, but will take away your possessions to give to his servants. |
4 Thy father [01] made [07185] our yoke [05923] grievous [07185]: now therefore make thou the grievous [07186] service [05656] of thy father [01], and his heavy [03515] yoke [05923] which he put [05414] upon us, lighter [07043], and we will serve [05647] thee.
13 And king [04428] Solomon [08010] raised [05927] a levy [04522] out of all Israel [03478]; and the levy [04522] was thirty [07970] thousand [0505] men [0376].
14 And he sent [07971] them to Lebanon [03844], ten [06235] thousand [0505] a month [02320] by courses [02487]: a month [02320] they were in Lebanon [03844], and two [08147] months [02320] at home [01004]: and Adoniram [0141] was over the levy [04522].
15 And Solomon [08010] had threescore and ten [07657] thousand [0505] that bare [05375] burdens [05449], and fourscore [08084] thousand [0505] hewers [02672] in the mountains [02022];
16 Beside the chief [08269] of Solomon's [08010] officers [05324] which were over the work [04399], three [07969] thousand [0505] and three [07969] hundred [03967], which ruled [07287] over the people [05971] that wrought [06213] in the work [04399].
17 And the king [04428] commanded [06680], and they brought [05265] great [01419] stones [068], costly [03368] stones [068], and hewed [01496] stones [068], to lay the foundation [03245] of the house [01004].
18 And Solomon's [08010] builders [01129] and Hiram's [02438] builders [01129] did hew [06458] them, and the stonesquarers [01382]: so they prepared [03559] timber [06086] and stones [068] to build [01129] the house [01004].