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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. And they went and told David concerning the men, and he inquired of them, for the men were very disgraced. And the king said, “Dwell in Jericho until your beards grow out; then return.”

And when the Ammonites[a] saw that they made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites[b] sent one thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves horses and chariots from Aram-Naharaim, Aram-Maacah, and Zobah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 19:6 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  2. 1 Chronicles 19:6 Literally “sons of Ammon”