1 Samuel 8:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.

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  • 1 Sam 8:11-16
    6 verses
    89%

    11 And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;

    12 And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.

    13 Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.

    14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

    15 He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

    16 He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

  • 1 Sam 8:18
    76%

    18 Then you will be crying out because of your king whom you have taken for yourselves; but the Lord will not give you an answer in that day.

  • Lev 27:32
    75%

    32 And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord.

  • Deut 18:4
    75%

    4 And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.

  • Deut 28:31
    73%

    31 Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

  • Deut 15:17
    72%

    17 Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.

  • 1 Chr 17:7
    72%

    7 So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;

  • 2 Chr 12:8
    72%

    8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.

  • Deut 28:51
    72%

    51 He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

  • Deut 15:14
    72%

    14 But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.

  • Num 18:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26 Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.

    27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

  • Deut 28:36
    72%

    36 And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

  • Num 29:15
    72%

    15 And a separate tenth part for every one of the fourteen lambs;

  • 1 Kgs 11:35
    71%

    35 But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.

  • Exod 22:30
    71%

    30 In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

  • Isa 14:2
    71%

    2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

  • Gen 28:22
    71%

    22 And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.

  • Deut 17:14
    71%

    14 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

  • Deut 12:6
    71%

    6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

  • 2 Sam 7:8
    71%

    8 Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

  • Neh 9:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:

    37 And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.

  • Num 18:14
    71%

    14 Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.

  • Hos 13:10
    71%

    10 Where is your king, that he may be your saviour? and all your rulers, that they may take up your cause? of whom you said, Give me a king and rulers.

  • Deut 28:48
    71%

    48 For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.

  • 2 Chr 28:10
    71%

    10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

  • Num 29:10
    71%

    10 A separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

  • Num 29:4
    71%

    4 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

  • 1 Sam 8:9
    71%

    9 Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

  • Num 31:37
    71%

    37 Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.

  • Deut 15:19
    71%

    19 All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.

  • 1 Sam 10:19
    71%

    19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

  • Deut 20:11
    71%

    11 And if it gives you back an answer of peace, opening its doors to you, then all the people in it may be put to forced work as your servants.

  • Num 31:28
    71%

    28 And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:

  • Ps 78:70
    71%

    70 He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;

  • Num 28:29
    71%

    29 And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

  • Jer 30:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

    9 But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.

  • Deut 14:22
    70%

    22 Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.

  • 1 Kgs 11:37
    70%

    37 And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.

  • Num 18:30
    70%

    30 Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.

  • 1 Sam 12:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

    14 If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

  • 2 Chr 10:4
    70%

    4 Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.