He will take a tenth of your grain and your grape harvest and distribute it among his officers and attendants.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will take one tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give it to his officers, and to his servants.
- KJV And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
- BSB He will take a tenth of your grain and grape harvest and give it to his officials and servants.
- NKJV He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.
- NASB And he will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and his servants.
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Quick answer
The king will take a tenth of their crops and vineyards to give to his officers and servants.
Overview
A royal tithe will be levied on their produce to support the king's administration. This burden parallels and competes with the tithe owed to the LORD. The growing list shows how monarchy will tax what God's people once held freely.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Dan 1:7–10The prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
- Isa 39:7‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’”
- Dan 1:18At the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
- Gen 37:36The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
- Dan 1:3The king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in some of the children of Israel, even of the royal offspring and of the nobles;
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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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