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2 Samuel 10:2-4
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2 David said, “I will express my loyalty[a] to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal[b] to me.” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death.[c] When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites, 3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun, “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy?[d] No, David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!”[e]

4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed,[f] and then sent them away.

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  1. 2 Samuel 10:2 tn Heb “do loyalty.”
  2. 2 Samuel 10:2 tn Heb “did loyalty.”
  3. 2 Samuel 10:2 tn Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”
  4. 2 Samuel 10:3 tn Heb “Is David honoring your father in your eyes when he sends to you ones consoling?”
  5. 2 Samuel 10:3 tn Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”
  6. 2 Samuel 10:4 tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto their buttocks.”
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