Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 princes of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem unto thee that David honours thy father, that he has sent comforters unto thee? Are not his slaves come unto 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 as far as their hips, and sent them away. 5 Then they left, and it was told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards are grown and then return.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:27
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
2 Samuel 10:4-5
Therefore, Hanun took David's slaves 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 misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, and there was no remedy.
Psalm 35:12
They rewarded me evil for good until my soul was alone.
Psalm 109:4-5
They have responded to my love by becoming my adversaries, but I give myself unto prayer.
Isaiah 15:2
He is gone up to Bajith and to Dibon, the altars, to weep; Moab shall howl over Nebo and over Medeba: every head among her shall become bald, and every beard shall be cut off.
Isaiah 20:4
so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:2-3
Take the millstones and grind meal; uncover thy locks, remove the shoes from thy feet, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
Jeremiah 41:5
that there came certain men of Shechem, of Shiloh, and of Samaria, eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard shaved: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon all the loins sackcloth.
Mark 12:4
And again he sent unto them another slave, and casting stones at him, they wounded him in the head and sent him away shamefully handled.
Luke 20:10-11
And at the season he sent a slave to the husbandmen that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard, but the husbandmen beat him and sent him away empty.