So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them, and cut off their robes in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away. Then certain people went and told David about the men. And he sent messengers to meet them, because the men were very humiliated. And the king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow back, then return.”

When the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves repulsive to David, Hanun and the sons of Ammon sent [a]a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen from Mesopotamia, Aram-maacah, and (A)Zobah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 19:6 About 38 tons or 34 metric tons

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