And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
And he will take your menservants and maidservants and your best cattle and donkeys and put them to his own use.
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;
And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old Testament1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.
- Author
- Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
- Date
- Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy