the Ammonite leaders said to Hanun, ‘Just because David has sent men with condolences for you, do you really believe he’s showing respect for your father? Instead, haven’t his emissaries come in order to scout out, overthrow, and spy on the land? ’
1 Chronicles 19:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore Hanun took David's servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle near their buttocks, and sent them away. American Standard Version (1901) So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. Common English Bible So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, cut off half their garments from their buttocks down, and sent them off. Catholic Public Domain Version And so Hanun shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and he cut away their tunics from the buttocks to the feet, and he sent them away. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore 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 Ammonite leaders said to Hanun, ‘Just because David has sent men with condolences for you, do you really believe he’s showing respect for your father? Instead, haven’t his emissaries come in order to scout out, overthrow, and spy on the land? ’
It was reported to David about his men, so he sent messengers to meet them, since the men were deeply humiliated. The king said, ‘Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back; then return.’
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is chopped short.
so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, stripped and barefoot, with bared buttocks #– #to Egypt’s shame.
eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria who had shaved their beards, torn their clothes, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.
Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth round the waist.
You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.
Again he sent another servant to them, and they hit him on the head and treated him shamefully.