2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half their beards, cut off their garments up to their buttocks, and sent them away.

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In The King James Version

Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

In Context

3But the leaders of the people of Ammon said to Hanun their master, “Do you really think that David is honoring your father because he has sent men to comfort you? Has not David sent his servants to you to look at the city, to spy it out, in order to overthrow it?”

5When they explained this to David, he sent to meet with them, for the men were deeply ashamed. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:27You will not round off the corners of the hair on the sides of your head or shave off the edge of your beard.

1 Chronicles 19:4So Hanun seized David's servants, shaved them, cut off their garments to the waist, up to their buttocks, and sent them away.

Isaiah 15:2They have gone up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the heights to weep; 1 Moab laments over Nebo and over Medeba. 1 All their heads are shaved bare and all their beards are cut off. 1

Isaiah 47:2Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, 1 strip off your flowing robe, uncover your legs, cross the streams. 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 10:2-6

Hanun's Usage of David's Servants. ( b. c. 1038.) 1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead. 2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon. 3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth… Read the whole commentary →

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