the princesof the Ammonitessaidto Hanuntheir lord,"Do you thinkthat Davidis honoringyour fatherbecausehe has sentconsolersto you? Has Davidnot senthis servantsto you in orderto searchthe city,to spyit out and overthrowit?"
"Sendoneof you that he may getyour brother,while you remain confined,that your wordsmay be tested,whether there is truthin you. But ifnot, by the lifeof Pharaoh,surelyyou are spies."
Josephrememberedthe dreamswhichhe hadabout them, and saidto them, "You are spies;you have cometo lookat the undefendedpartsof our land."
"You knowAbnerthe sonof Ner,that he cameto deceiveyou and to learnof your goingout and comingin and to findout allthat you are doing."
But the princesof the sonsof Ammonsaidto Hanun,"Do you thinkthat Davidis honoringyour father,in that he has sentcomfortersto you? Have not his servantscometo you to searchand to overthrowand to spyout the land?"
does not act unbecomingly;it does not seekits own,is not provoked,does not take into accounta wrong[suffered],
bearsallthings,believesallthings,hopesall things,enduresall things.
