1 Chronicles 19:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his [a]father showed kindness unto me. And David sent messengers to comfort him for his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? Are not his servants come to thee to [b]search, to seek and to spy out the land?
4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and [c]shaved them, and cut off their [d]garments by the half unto the buttocks, and sent them away.
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- 1 Chronicles 19:2 Because Nahash received David and his company, when Saul persecuted him he would now show pleasure to his son for the same.
- 1 Chronicles 19:3 Thus the malicious ever interpret the purpose of the godly in the worst sense.
- 1 Chronicles 19:4 They shaved off the half of their beards, 2 Sam. 10:4.
- 1 Chronicles 19:4 To put them to shame and villainy, whereas the ambassadors ought to have been honored: and because the Jews used to wear side garments and beards, they thus disfigured them, to make them odious to others.
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