1 Chronicles 19:4

New International Reader's Version

So Hanun grabbed David’s messengers. He shaved them. He cut off their clothes just below the waist and left them half naked. Then he sent them away.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 19:3

The Ammonite commanders spoke to Hanun. They said, “David has sent messengers to tell you he is sad. They say he wants to honor your father. But the real reason they’ve come is to look the land over. They want to destroy it.”

1 Chronicles 19:5

Someone came and told David what had happened to his men. So David sent messengers to them because they were filled with shame. King David said to them, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow out again. Then come back here.”

2 Chronicles 36:16

But God’s people made fun of his messengers. They hated his words. They laughed at his prophets. Finally the Lord’s great anger was stirred up against his people. Nothing could save them.

Psalm 35:12

They pay me back with evil, even though I was good to them. They leave me like someone who has lost a family member.

Isaiah 15:2

The people of Dibon go up to their temple to worship. They go to their high places to weep. The people of Moab cry over the cities of Nebo and Medeba. All their heads are shaved. All their beards have been cut off.

Isaiah 20:4

The king of Assyria will lead prisoners away from Egypt and Cush. Young people and old people alike will be taken away. Like Isaiah, they will be barefoot and naked. Their backsides will be bare. So the Egyptians will be put to shame.

Jeremiah 41:5

On that day 80 men came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria. They had shaved off their beards. They had torn their clothes. And they had cut themselves. They brought grain offerings and incense with them. They took them to the Lord’s house.

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head is shaved. Every beard is cut off. Every hand is cut. And every waist is covered with the clothes of sadness.

Leviticus 19:27

“ ‘Do not cut the hair on the sides of your head. Do not clip off the edges of your beard.

Mark 12:4

So the man sent another servant to the renters. They hit this one on the head and treated him badly.