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1 Samuel 8:14

1 Samuel 8:14
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,.... Which includes the whole increase of their land, their corn, and wine, and oil; and it is these, the fruits of their fields,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Samuel 8:4-22

We have here the starting of a matter perfectly new and surprising, which was the setting up of kingly government in Israel. Perhaps the thing had been often talked of among them by those that were…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

he will take your fields&c. Cp. 1Ki 21:7; Eze 46:18.

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