the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think that David is honoring your father, by sending messengers to express sympathy? Have not his servants come to you to explore and spy out the country to overthrow it?”
1 Chronicles 19:4 - Tree of Life Version So Hanun took David’s emissaries and shaved them. He cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks 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 officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think that David is honoring your father, by sending messengers to express sympathy? Have not his servants come to you to explore and spy out the country to overthrow it?”
When some people came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them for the men were throughly humiliated. The king said: “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow and then return.”
But they mocked the messengers of God and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets until the wrath of Adonai rose against His people, until there was no remedy.
He has gone up to the shrine, to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is bald, every beard shaven.
so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to Egypt’s shame.
that 80 men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, with their beards shaved off, their clothes rent, and having gashed themselves, with grain offerings and frankincense in their hand to bring to the House of Adonai.
For every head is bald, every beard clipped, on all the hands are gashes, and around the waist sackcloth.
“You are not to round off the hair on the sides of your heads, nor are you to mar the edge of your beard.
And again the man sent another servant to them, and they wounded his head and treated him shamefully.