1 Samuel 8:14,15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

He will take your fields By fraud or force, as Ahab did from Naboth. And give them to his servants He will not only take the fruits of your lands for his own use, but will take away your possessions to give to his servants. The tenth Besides the several tenths which God hath reserved for his service, he will when he pleaseth, impose another tenth upon you. And give to his officers Hebrew, to his eunuchs, which may imply a further injury, that he should, against the command of God, make some of his people eunuchs; and take those into his court and favour whom God would have cast out of the congregation.

1 Samuel 8:14-15

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,c and to his servants.