Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

He will take the tenth: besides the several tenths which God hath reserved for his service and servants, he will, when he pleaseth, impose another tenth upon you.

To his officers, Heb. to his eunuchs; which may be properly understood, and 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 which God would have cast out of the congregation.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And he will take the tenth of your seed,…. When grown up and ripe, as their wheat and barley:

and of your vineyards; the tenth of the grapes they should produce:

and give to his officers, and to his servants; for the support and maintenance of them; and to pay this, besides the tithes of the priests and Levites, would make it very burdensome to them; and this was no other than what kings of other nations usually had, the like to whom they were desirous of having, and therefore must expect that they would insist upon the privileges and revenues that others had. In Babylon, as Aristotle g relates, there was an ancient law which required the tenth of whatever was imported for the public revenue, which was revived in the times of Alexander by Antimenes the Rhodian. In Arabia Felix was an island abounding with frankincense and myrrh, and various spices, the tenth of the fruits of which the king always had, as Diodorus Siculus h reports, as in the Apocrypha:

“And as for other things that belong unto us, of the tithes and customs pertaining unto us, as also the saltpits, and the crown taxes, which are due unto us, we discharge them of them all for their relief.” (1 Maccabees 11:35)

g Oeconomic. l. 2. p. 283. h Bibliothec. l. 5. p. 317.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

1Sa 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

Ver. 15. And he will take the tenth of your seed. ] Violently, and not by order of law; pilling and polling you unreasonably, though he receive of his subjects no less sums of curses than of coin, as our King John did, gathering money, the sinews of war, but losing love, the cement of peace. a

a Speed.

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

your vineyards. Compare 1Ki 21:7.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

officers: Heb. eunuchs, Gen 37:36, Isa 39:7, Dan 1:3, Dan 1:7-10, Dan 1:18

Reciprocal: Gen 47:24 – the fifth part 1Sa 22:7 – give 2Ch 18:8 – officers Neh 5:15 – even their Est 4:4 – chamberlains Heb 7:2 – a tenth

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge