1 Samuel 8:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Your flocks also he will tithe, and you shall be his servants.

1 Samuel 8:17 Cross References

1 Kings 12:4

Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Hebrews 7:2

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;

1 Samuel 17:8

And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.

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.

1 Samuel 8:18

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not answer you in that day.