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He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
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Royal Domestic Service
Commentators explain that Samuel's warning was very practical. The future king would conscript the people's daughters into royal service. The roles mentioned—perfumers (makers of ointments and scents), cooks, and bakers—were common domestic duties for women in that culture. This was a personal appropriation of their family members for the king's household.
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19th Century
Anglican
Confectionaries. —Better rendered perfumers— that is, makers of ointments and scents, of which people in the East are ino…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries Such as deal in spices, and mix them, and make them up in vari…
Presbyterian
If they wished to have a king to rule them, as the eastern kings ruled their subjects, they would find the yoke exceedingly heavy. Those who submit…
