He will take your men-servants By constraint, and without sufficient recompense. Your goodliest young men The most beautiful and proper person she can find; and your asses, and put them to his work Either at the plough, or for carriage, or any other employment wherein he shall think they will be useful. And ye shall be his servants So subject to him, that if he please ye shall be no better than slaves, deprived of that liberty which you now enjoy. And ye shall cry out in that day Ye shall bitterly mourn for the sad effects of this inordinate desire of a king. This shows that in the foregoing verses Samuel describes the uncontrollable power which the eastern princes exercised over their subjects, who were obliged patiently to bear whatever their kings imposed upon them, without any power to help themselves. The Lord will not hear you in that day Because you will not hear nor obey his counsel in this day; but he will leave you under this heavy yoke.
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1 Samuel 8:16-18
16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.