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


In Context

13 Your daughters also he will take to make him ointments, and to be his cooks, and bakers.

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

15 Moreover he will take the tenth of your corn, and of the revenues of your vineyards, to give his eunuchs and servants.

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

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

18 And you shall cry out in that day from the face of the king, whom you have chosen to yourselves. and the Lord will not hear you in that day, because you desired unto yourselves a king.

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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

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.