He will also take your daughters and use them as perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will take your daughters to be perfumers, to be cooks, and to be bakers.
- KJV And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
- BSB And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
- NKJV He will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
- NLT The king will take your daughters from you and force them to cook and bake and make perfumes for him.
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Quick answer
The king will take their daughters to serve as perfumers, cooks, and bakers.
Overview
Even the daughters will be conscripted into royal service, showing the king's reach into every household. No family will be exempt from the demands of the monarchy. The warning makes clear the comprehensive cost of the kingship they crave.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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