Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Samuel 8:14

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

14. he will take your fields &c.] Cp. 1Ki 21:7; Eze 46:18.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

See illustrations in marginal references; 1Ki 5:13-18; 1Ki 12:4.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

He will take your fields, to wit, 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.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

14-18. he will take your fields,&c.The circumstances mentioned here might be illustrated byexact analogies in the conduct of many Oriental monarchs in thepresent day.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,…. Which includes the whole increase of their land, their corn, and wine, and oil; and it is these, the fruits of their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, which are here meant; for otherwise kings might not, and did not by their absolute authority, take away those from their subjects; otherwise Ahab would have taken away Naboth’s vineyard at once, nor would Jezebel have needed to have taken such a method she did, to put Ahab into the possession of it:

even the best of them, and give them to his servants; for their service; and which some restrain to times of war, when necessity obliged to use such methods.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

1Sa 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, [even] the best [of them], and give [them] to his servants.

Ver. 14. And he will take your fields, &c. ] As if you were not masters of so much as a molehill, but all were his. But what saith God? “The prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of possession.” Eze 46:18 And what saith Seneca? Non civium servitutem Regi traditam sed tutelam, a And what said the clergy of England to Rustand, the Pope’s legate, when he said that all the churches were the Pope’s? They answered, that they might be so tuitione, non fruitione defensione, non dissipatione. b

a De Clem., lib. i. cap. 18.

b Jacob. Rev., De Vit. Pont.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)