1 Samuel 8:16
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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Gill's Exposition
And he will take your manservants, and your maidservants,.... Into his own family, for his own use and service, if he wants them, or likes them better than what he has:
and your goodliest young men:…
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
your goodliest young men "Young men" in the Heb. appears to be a copyist's error, and we should probably adopt the Sept. reading " cattle. " Men-servants and maid-servants, cattle and asses, are then…