So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved them, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

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10 At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants so they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed. 11 He sent another servant, but that one also they beat and treated shamefully and sent away empty-handed.

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Then he sent another servant to them; they struck this man on the head and treated him shamefully.

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37 Every head is shaved(A)
    and every beard(B) cut off;
every hand is slashed
    and every waist is covered with sackcloth.(C)

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eighty men who had shaved off their beards,(A) torn their clothes(B) and cut(C) themselves came from Shechem,(D) Shiloh(E) and Samaria,(F) bringing grain offerings and incense(G) with them to the house of the Lord.(H)

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Take millstones(A) and grind(B) flour;
    take off your veil.(C)
Lift up your skirts,(D) bare your legs,
    and wade through the streams.
Your nakedness(E) will be exposed
    and your shame(F) uncovered.
I will take vengeance;(G)
    I will spare no one.(H)

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so the king(A) of Assyria will lead away stripped(B) and barefoot the Egyptian captives(C) and Cushite(D) exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared(E)—to Egypt’s shame.(F)

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Dibon(A) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places(B) to weep;
    Moab wails(C) over Nebo(D) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(E)
    and every beard cut off.(F)

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In return for my friendship they accuse me,
    but I am a man of prayer.(A)
They repay me evil for good,(B)
    and hatred for my friendship.

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12 They repay me evil for good(A)
    and leave me like one bereaved.

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16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed(A) at his prophets until the wrath(B) of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.(C)

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So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard,(A) cut off their garments at the buttocks,(B) and sent them away.

When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”

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27 “‘Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.(A)

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