1 Chronicles 19:4-6

Easy-to-Read Version

⁴So Hanun arrested David’s servants and cut off their beards.^[a] Hanun also cut their clothes off at the hip and sent them away.

⁵David’s men were too embarrassed to go home. Some people went to David and told him what happened to his men. So King David sent this message to his men: “Stay in the town of Jericho until your beards grow again. Then you can come back home.”

⁶The Ammonites saw they had caused themselves to become hated enemies of David. Then Hanun and the Ammonites used 75,000 pounds^[b] of silver to buy chariots and chariot drivers from Mesopotamia.^[c] They also got chariots and chariot drivers from the towns of Maacah and Zobah in Aram.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

1 Chronicles 19:4 cut off their beards This was an insult to an Israelite man, who was forbidden to cut the corners of his beard. See Lev. 19:27.
1 Chronicles 19:6 75,000 pounds Literally, “1000 talents” (34,500 kg).
1 Chronicles 19:6 Mesopotamia Literally, “Aram Naharaim.”