1 Samuel 8:17
He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.
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- 1 Sam 8:11-166 verses89%
11He said,“Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.
12He will appoint for himself leaders of thousands and leaders of fifties, as well as those who plow his ground, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and his chariot equipment.
13He will take your daughters to be ointment makers, cooks, and bakers.
14He will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves, and give them to his own servants.
15He will demand a tenth of your seed and of the produce of your vineyards and give it to his administrators and his servants.
16He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.
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18In that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD won’t answer you in that day.”
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32All the tithe of herd or flock, everything which passes under the rod, the tenth one will be holy to the LORD.
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4You must give them the best of your grain, new wine, and olive oil, as well as the best of your wool when you shear your flocks.
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31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.
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17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).
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7“So now, say this to my servant David:‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says:“I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you a leader of my people Israel.
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8Yet they will become his subjects, so they can experience how serving me differs from serving the surrounding nations.”
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51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
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14You must supply them generously from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress– as the LORD your God has blessed you, you must give to them.
- Num 18:26-272 verses72%
26“You are to speak to the Levites, and you must tell them,‘When you receive from the Israelites the tithe that I have given you from them as your inheritance, then you are to offer up from it as a raised offering to the LORD a tenth of the tithe.
27And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.
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36The LORD will force you and your king whom you will appoint over you to go away to a people whom you and your ancestors have not known, and you will serve other gods of wood and stone there.
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15and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs,
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35I will take the kingdom from the hand of his son and give ten tribes to you.
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30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.
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2Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place. Then the family of Israel will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the LORD’s land. They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
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22Then this stone that I have set up as a sacred stone will be the house of God, and I will surely give you back a tenth of everything you give me.”
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14Provision for Kingship When you come to the land the LORD your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say,“I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,”
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6And there you must take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the personal offerings you have prepared, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
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8“So now, say this to my servant David:‘This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said: I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you leader of my people Israel.
- Neh 9:36-372 verses71%
36“So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things– we are slaves!
37Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!
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14“Everything devoted in Israel will be yours.
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10Where then is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? Where are your rulers for whom you asked, saying,“Give me a king and princes”?
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48instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
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10And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
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10and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,
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4and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,
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9So now do as they say. But you must warn them and make them aware of the policies of the king who will rule over them.”
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37the LORD’s tribute from the sheep was 675.
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19Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.
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19But today you have rejected your God who saves you from all your trouble and distress. You have said,“No! Appoint a king over us.” Now take your positions before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans.’”
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11If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.
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28“You must exact a tribute for the LORD from the fighting men who went out to battle: one life out of five hundred, from the people, the cattle, and from the donkeys and the sheep.
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70He chose David, his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.
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29with one-tenth for each of the seven lambs,
- Jer 30:8-92 verses70%
8When the time for them to be rescued comes,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.
9But they will be subject to the LORD their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.
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22The Offering of Tribute You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.
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37I will select you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.
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30“Therefore you will say to them,‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.
- 1 Sam 12:13-142 verses70%
13Now look! Here is the king you have chosen– the one that you asked for! Look, the LORD has given you a king!
14If you fear the LORD, serving him and obeying him and not rebelling against what he says, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, all will be well.
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4“Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”