So Hanun arrested David's delegation, shaved off their beards, cut off their clothes at the waist line, and sent them away in disgrace.

"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.

So Hanun arrested David's delegation, shaved off half of their beards, cut off their clothes at the waist line, and sent them away in disgrace.

but they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until there was no remedy for the wrath of the LORD that arose to punish his people.

They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns.

Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer.

He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely bald, and every beard is shaved off.

so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptian captives and exiles from Cush, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot with even their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.

Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

eighty men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria came with their beards shaved, their clothes torn, and their bodies slashed. They had grain offerings and incense with them to present at the LORD's Temple.

Indeed every head will be bald and every beard cut short. There will be gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Again, the man sent another servant to them. They beat the servant over the head and treated him shamefully.

At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

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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.

Took david's

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Took david's

They paid me back evil for good; my soul mourns.
Instead of receiving my love, they accuse me, though I continue in prayer.

Shaved them

"You are not to cut your hair in ritualistic patterns on your head or deface the edges of your beard.
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely bald, and every beard is shaved off.
eighty men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria came with their beards shaved, their clothes torn, and their bodies slashed. They had grain offerings and incense with them to present at the LORD's Temple.
Indeed every head will be bald and every beard cut short. There will be gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

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so the king of Assyria will lead away the Egyptian captives and exiles from Cush, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot with even their buttocks uncovered to the shame of Egypt.
Take millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off your robes, bare your legs, and wade through the rivers.

Sent them

So Hanun arrested David's delegation, shaved off half of their beards, cut off their clothes at the waist line, and sent them away in disgrace.
but they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until there was no remedy for the wrath of the LORD that arose to punish his people.
Again, the man sent another servant to them. They beat the servant over the head and treated him shamefully.
At the right time he sent a servant to the farmers in order to get his share of the produce of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him and sent him back empty-handed.

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