1 Samuel 8:14

WEB

He will take your fields, and 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.

Commentary

And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards,.... Which includes the whole increase of their land, their corn, a nd 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.