1 Chronicles 19:4 “So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their gar…”

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued them, and cut off their garments by the halfe vnto the buttocks, and sent them away.

Darby Translation

And Hanun took David's servants, and had them shaved, and their raiment cut off in the midst, as far as the hip, and sent them away.

Young's Literal Translation

And Hanun taketh the servants of David, and shaveth them, and cutteth their long robes in the midst, unto the buttocks, and sendeth them away.

Bible in Basic English

So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.

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Cross references

“took David's”

Psalm 35:12 Psalm 109:4 Psalm 109:5

Psalm 35:12 · BSB

They repay me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

Psalm 109:4 · BSB

In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

Psalm 109:5 · BSB

They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

“shaved them”

Leviticus 19:27 Isaiah 15:2 Jeremiah 41:5 Jeremiah 48:37

Leviticus 19:27 · BSB

You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.

Isaiah 15:2 · BSB

Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

Jeremiah 41:5 · BSB

eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 48:37 · BSB

For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

“and cut”

Isaiah 20:4 Isaiah 47:2 Isaiah 47:3

Isaiah 20:4 · BSB

so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

Isaiah 47:2 · BSB

Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

Isaiah 47:3 · BSB

Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

“sent them”

2 Chronicles 36:16 Mark 12:4 2 Samuel 10:4 2 Samuel 10:5 Luke 20:10 Luke 20:11

2 Chronicles 36:16 · BSB

But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.

Mark 12:4 · BSB

Then he sent them another servant, and they struck him over the head and treated him shamefully.

2 Samuel 10:4 · BSB

So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

2 Samuel 10:5 · BSB

When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

Luke 20:10 · BSB

At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.

Luke 20:11 · BSB

So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Have not his servants come to you to explore the land, spy it out, and overthrow it?”

5When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

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