1 Chronicles 19:4 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“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.”

1 Chronicles 19:4 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

1 Chronicles 19:4 in 6 Bible Translations

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1 Chronicles 19:4 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.”

1 Chronicles 19:4 — World English Bible

1 Chronicles 19:4 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“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. ”

1 Chronicles 19:4 — American Standard Version

1 Chronicles 19:4 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“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 — Young's Literal Translation

1 Chronicles 19:4 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“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. ”

1 Chronicles 19:4 — Darby Translation

1 Chronicles 19:4 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued them, and cut off their garments by the halfe vnto the buttocks, and sent them away.”

1 Chronicles 19:4 — Geneva Bible

1 Chronicles 19:4 in Context — 1 Chronicles 19

2 And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

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.

5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria–maachah, and out of Zobah.

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What Does 1 Chronicles 19:4 Mean?

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