So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
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So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.
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Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
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So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.
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Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 19:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 10:4-5 So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
- Leviticus 19:27 “ ‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Psalms 35:12 They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.
- Psalms 109:4-5 In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
- Isaiah 15:2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
- Isaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
- Isaiah 47:2-3 Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers. Your nakedness will be uncovered. Yes, your shame will be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.”
- Jeremiah 41:5 men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.
- Jeremiah 48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.
- Mark 12:4 Again, he sent another servant to them; and they threw stones at him, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated.
- Luke 20:10-11 At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty. He sent yet another servant, and they also beat him, and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To put them to shame and villainy, whereas the…
To put them to shame and villainy, whereas the ambassadors ought to have been honored: and because the Jews used to wear side garments and beards, they thus disfigured them, to make them odious to others.
They shaved off the half of their beards, 2 Sam. 10:4.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ch 19:4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved…
1Ch 19:4 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
Ver. 4. And shaved them.] Sic legatos Davidis deturpans illudit, {a} Popish priests say they do therefore shave their beards, lest while they drink Christ’s blood out of the chalice, any drop thereof should hang upon their beards. Oh, shameful superstition!
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Hard by their buttocks.] This is check to the fashion mongers of our time, saith Piscator; who wear their clothes so close, and cloaks so short, that they cover not their buttocks.
{a} Piscator.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. And cut off their garments in the…
Verse 4. And cut off their garments in the midst] Usque ad eorum, pudenda. So the Targum, Jarchi, and others; leaving exposed what nature and decency require to be concealed. See on 2Sa 10:4.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain From. Hebrew, "in the midst, above the thighs:" exposing…
From. Hebrew, "in the midst, above the thighs:" exposing them to derision. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain shaved them--not completely, but only the half of their…
shaved them--not completely, but only the half of their face. This disrespect to the beard, and indecent exposure of their persons by their clothes being cut off from the girdle downwards, was the grossest indignity to which Jews, in common with all Orientals, could be subjected. No wonder that the men were ashamed to appear in public--that the king recommended them to remain in seclusion on the border till the mark of their disgrace had disappeared--and then they might, with propriety, return to the court.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. shaved them] 2Sa_10:4, shaved off the one half…
4. shaved them] 2Sa_10:4, shaved off the one half of iheir beards. Of course a great insult; cp. Isa_50:6.
cut off their garments] Jewish ambassadors are represented on the Black Obelisk (a monument of Shalmaneser II, king of Assyria, now preserved in the British Museum) as wearing robes reaching to the feet; Hanun reduced ambassadors to the level of captives; cp. Isa_20:4.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) Shaved them—i.e., the half of their beards (Samuel).
(4) Shaved them—i.e., the half of their beards (Samuel).
Hard by their buttocks.—Literally, unto the extremities. The chronicler has substituted a more decorous term for the one which appears in Samuel.
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Cut off their garments.—To look like captives (Isa_20:4).
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The classical scholar will not fail to be reminded,…
The classical scholar will not fail to be reminded, so far as the shaving here spoken of is concerned, of the account contained in Herodotus, 2:121. The parallel place makes the resemblance close, in that it tells us that "one-half of their beards" was shaved. To shave them was an affront to their customs, dignity, and religion: to shave them half added mockery; and to cut off half their garments completed the tale of ignominious and contemptuous insult. (Isa_20:4) The beard was held almost in reverence by Easterns.
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 So Hanun seized
So Hanun seized
Hanun did not do this personally, but ordered his men to do it. AT: "So Hanun's men seized" (See: Metonymy)
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their garments
"their clothes"
he sent to meet with them
"David sent some messengers to encourage them"
deeply ashamed
In this idiom, shame is described as deep to show that it has greatly affected them. AT: "very ashamed" (See: Idiom)
The king
This refers to David.
then return
"then return to Jerusalem"
translationWords
seize
shame
Jericho
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