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So Hanun took David’s emissaries and shaved them. He cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks and sent them away.

When some people came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them for the men were throughly humiliated. The king said: “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow and then return.”

When the children of Ammon realized they had made themselves a stench to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram-naharaim[a], Aram-maacah and Zobah.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 19:6 Or, northern Mesopatamia.