4So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
4So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
1 In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, and his son succeeded him as king.
2 David thought, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
3 the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, "Do you think David is honoring your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Haven't his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?"
4 So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
5 When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back."
6 When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench in David's nostrils, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah and Zobah.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.