1 Chronicles 19:4 Parallel Translations

So Hanun took David's men, shaved them, cut off their clothes from the waist down, and sent them away.(GOD'S WORD®)

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.

ASV:

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

BBE:

So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.

DBY:

And Hanun took David's servants, and had them shaved, and their raiment cut off in the midst, as far as the hip, and sent them away.

ERV:

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

JPS:

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.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

YLT:

And Hanun taketh the servants of David, and shaveth them, and cutteth their long robes in the midst, unto the buttocks, and sendeth them away.

1 Chronicles 19:4 Cross References

XREF:

1 Chronicles 19:3 But the princes of the sons of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David is honoring your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?"

1 Chronicles 19:5 Then certain persons went and told David about the men. And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

19:4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and {c} shaved them, and cut off their {d} garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
(c) They shaved off half of their beards, 2Sa 10:4.
(d) To put them to shame and villany, while the ambassadors should have been honoured: and because the Jews used to wear side garments and beards, they thus disfigured them, to make them odious to others.

MHC:

19:1-19 David's wars. - The history is here repeated which we read 2Sa 10. The only safety of sinners consists in submitting to the Lord, seeking peace with him, and becoming his servants. Let us assist each other in a good cause; but let us fear lest, while made instruments of good to others, we should come short of salvation, through unbelief and sin.

CONC:

Buttocks Cut Cutteth Cutting David David's Garments Hair Hanun Hip Hips Middle Midst Raiment Robes Seized Servants Shaved Shaveth Skirts Taketh Wherefore

Buttocks Cut Cutteth Cutting David David's Far Garments Hair Hanun Hard Hip Hips Middle Midst Robes Seized Servants Shaved Shaveth Skirts Wherefore

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