Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not in order to search out, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land, came his servants to thee? 4 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. 5 And they will go and announce to David concerning the men; and he will send to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king will say, Sit in Jericho till your beard shall spring up, and turn ye back.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:27
Ye shall not cut the extremities of your head, and thou shalt not destroy the extremities of thy beard.
2 Samuel 10:4-5
And Hanun will take David's servants, and shave half their beard, and cut off their garments in the half, even to their buttocks, and he will send them away.
2 Chronicles 36:16
For they will be mocking upon the messengers of God, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, even to the bringing up the wrath of Jehovah against his people, even to no healing.
Psalm 35:12
They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul
Psalm 109:4-5
For my love they will oppose me: and I for prayer.
Isaiah 15:2
He went up to the house and to Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Nebo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon all their heads baldness; every beard cut off.
Isaiah 20:4
Thus shall the king of Assur lead the captivity of Egypt, and the exile of Cush, boys and old men naked and barefoot, and buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt
Isaiah 47:2-3
Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Jeremiah 41:5
And men will come from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Shomeron, eighty men, shaving the beard, and their garments rent, and cutting themselves, and a gift and frankincense in their hand, to bring to the house of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 48:37
For every head bald, and every beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Mark 12:4
And again he sent to them another servant; and having stoned the same they treated in a summary manner, and sent away despised.
Luke 20:10-11
And in time he sent a servant to the farmers, that they give him from the fruit of the vineyard: and the farmers, skinning, sent him out empty.