1 Samuel 8:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 2 And the Lord said to Samuel: Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel: Let every man go to his city.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves shall be his slaves.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and then you yourselves will become his slaves!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Also, he will take a tenth of your flocks. And you will be his servants.

1 Samuel 8:17 Cross References

1 Samuel 8:16

1 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and rehearsed them in the ears of the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:18

Now I there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Cis, the son of Abiel, the son of Seror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphia, the son of a man of Jemini, valiant and strong.

1 Samuel 17:8

3 And his three eldest sons followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle, were Eliab the firstborn, and the second Abinadab, and the third Samma.

1 Kings 12:4

And he said to them: What counsel do you give me, that I may answer this people, who have said to me: Make the yoke which thy father put upon us lighter?

Hebrews 7:2

1 If then perfection was by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise according to the order of Melchisedech, and not be called according to the order of Aaron?