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1 Chronicles 19:4-6
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1 Chronicles 19:4-6
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4 So Hanun arrested David’s servants and cut off their beards.[a] Hanun also cut their clothes off at the hip and sent them away.
5 David’s men were too embarrassed to go home. Some people went to David and told him what happened to his men. So King David sent this message to his men: “Stay in the town of Jericho until your beards grow again. Then you can come back home.”
6 The Ammonites saw they had caused themselves to become hated enemies of David. Then Hanun and the Ammonites used 75,000 pounds[b] of silver to buy chariots and chariot drivers from Mesopotamia.[c] They also got chariots and chariot drivers from the towns of Maacah and Zobah in Aram.
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- 1 Chronicles 19:4 cut off their beards This was an insult to an Israelite man, who was forbidden to cut the corners of his beard. See Lev. 19:27.
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 75,000 pounds Literally, “1000 talents” (34,500 kg).
- 1 Chronicles 19:6 Mesopotamia Literally, “Aram Naharaim.”
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