1 Samuel 8:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ “A tenth of your sheep he is going to take, and you are to be his servants.

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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.

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

“Your father made our yoke hard, and now, lighten the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, then we serve you.”

Hebrews 7:2

to whom also Aḇraham gave a tenth part of all, his name being translated, indeed, first, ‘sovereign of righteousness,’ and then also sovereign of Shalĕm, that is, ‘sovereign of peace,’

1 Samuel 17:8

And he stood and shouted to the armies of Yisra’ĕl, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Sha’ul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 8:16

“And your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys he is going to take and use for his own work.

1 Samuel 8:18

“And you shall cry out in that day because of your sovereign whom you have chosen for yourselves, but יהוה is not going to answer you in that day.”