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1 Chronicles 19:3-5
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3 the Ammonite officials said to Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy?[a] No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!”[b] 4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved their beards off.[c] He cut off the lower part of their robes so that their buttocks were exposed[d] and then sent them away. 5 People[e] came and told David what had happened to the men, so he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

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  1. 1 Chronicles 19:3 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
  2. 1 Chronicles 19:3 tc Heb “Is it not to explore and to overturn and to spy out the land (that) his servants have come to you?” The Hebrew term לַהֲפֹךְ (lahafokh, “to overturn”) seems misplaced in the sequence. Some emend the form to לַחְפֹּר (lakhpor, “to spy out”). The sequence of three infinitives may be a conflation of alternative readings.
  3. 1 Chronicles 19:4 tn Heb “shaved them.” See v. 5.
  4. 1 Chronicles 19:4 tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto the buttocks.”
  5. 1 Chronicles 19:5 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
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