Parallel Verses
A Conservative 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.
New American Standard Bible
So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.
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.
Holman Bible
So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
International Standard Version
So Hanun arrested David's delegation, shaved off their beards, cut off their clothes at the waist line, and sent them away in disgrace.
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.
Amplified
Therefore Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them [cutting off half their beards], and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away [in humiliation].
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And Hanun will take David's servants and shave them, and cut off their garments in the half, even to the step, and he will send them away.
King James 2000
Therefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments at the middle, up to the buttocks, and sent them away.
Modern King James verseion
And Hanun took David's servants and shaved them, and cut off their garments in half, to the buttocks, and sent them away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whereupon Hanun took David's servants and shaved them, and cut off their coats hard by their buttocks and sent them away.
NET Bible
So Hanun seized David's servants and shaved their beards off. He cut off the lower part of their robes so that their buttocks were exposed and then sent them away.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
So Hanun took the servants of David, and shaved them, and cut off their upper garments in the middle, as far as their parts of shame, - and let them go.
Webster
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, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Motive » Misunderstood » David's, by king hanun
Rulers' » Wicked » Instances of » Hanun, maltreating david's servants
Interlinear
Laqach
`ebed
Karath
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 19:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Ammonites Humiliate David's Messengers
3 But the rulers of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, Do thou think that David honors thy father, in that he has sent comforters to thee? Have not his servants come to thee to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? 4 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. 5 And they came and informed David about the men. And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Remain at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:27
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, nor shall thou mar the corners of thy beard.
2 Samuel 10:4-5
So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Psalm 35:12
They reward me evil for good, [to] the bereaving of my soul.
Psalm 109:4-5
For my love they are my adversaries, but I [make] prayer.
Isaiah 15:2
They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo, and over Medeba. On all their heads is baldness. Every beard is cut off.
Isaiah 20:4
so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:2-3
Take the millstones, and grind meal. Remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Jeremiah 41:5
that men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaven and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal-offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the hous
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. Upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Mark 12:4
And again he sent another bondman to them. And that man, having stoned, they wounded in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
Luke 20:10-11
And at the season he sent a bondman to the farmers, so that they would give him from the fruit of the vineyard. But having beaten him, the farmers sent him away empty.