1 Chronicles 19:4-6

The Voice

⁴So Hanun humiliated David’s servants: shaved them, cut their garment hems up to their hips, and sent them away. ⁵When David heard what had happened, he sent a message to his humiliated servants:

This is a shameful turn of events. In the ancient world, normally eunuchs are clean shaven, so this is a deep insult to David and his people.

David’s Message: Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return to Jerusalem.

⁶When Hanun and the Ammonites realized they had made themselves abhorrent to David, they paid 37 tons of silver to mercenaries from Mesopotamia, Aram-maacah, and Zobah.

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