4Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.


In Context

1 Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria-maachah, and out of Zobah.

1 Chronicles 19:4 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:4So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:4Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and sent them away.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:4So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4And Hanun took David's servants, and had them shaved, and their raiment cut off in the midst, as far as the hip, and sent them away.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:4So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:4And Hanun taketh the servants of David, and shaveth them, and cutteth their long robes in the midst, unto the buttocks, and sendeth them away.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:4Why Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.