1 Samuel 8:14 meaning and explanation
He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.
1 Samuel 8:14, Berean Standard Bible
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Samuel has warned Israel what a king will cost them, and here he names the land itself. The fields, vineyards and olive groves were the inheritance God had apportioned to each family, so the king's claim on the best of them strikes at covenant life, not just property.
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