16And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.


In Context

13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

16 And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

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

18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

1 Samuel 8:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:16Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put [them] to his work.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:16Your servants also and handmaids, and your goodliest young men, and your asses he will take away, and put them to his work.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your bondmen, and your bondwomen, and your comeliest young men, and your asses, and use them for his work.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your most choice young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your young men — the best, and your asses, he doth take, and hath prepared for his own work;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your best young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.