So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
Leviticus 19:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall not round the corners of the hair of your heads nor trim the corners of your beard [as some idolaters do]. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Common English Bible You must not cut off the hair on your forehead or clip the ends of your beard. Catholic Public Domain Version And you shall not cut the hair of your head circularly, nor shave your beard. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard. |
So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
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.
‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
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.
‘ “Look, the days are coming #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised:
‘They may not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but are to carefully trim their hair.
They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald.
You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
‘Priests may not make bald spots on their heads, shave the edge of their beards, or make gashes on their bodies.
‘You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,