He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his servants.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will take your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, even their best, and give them to his servants.
- KJV And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
- NKJV And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.
- NASB He will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.
- NLT He will take away the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his own officials.
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Quick answer
The king will seize their best fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his servants.
Overview
The king will confiscate the people's most valuable property to reward his own officials. This loss of inheritance strikes at the heart of Israel's identity as a people given land by God. Later kings like Ahab would embody this very abuse (1 Kings 21).
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Cross-references · 4
- Ezek 46:18The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’”
- 1 Kgs 21:7But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
- 1 Kgs 21:19Tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Have you not murdered a man and seized his land?’ Then tell him that this is also what the LORD says: ‘In the place where the dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, there also the dogs will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”
- 1 Sam 22:7Then Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin! Is the son of Jesse giving all of you fields and vineyards and making you commanders of thousands or hundreds?
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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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