- In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, and his son succeeded him as king.
- David thought, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
- the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, "Do you think David is honoring your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Haven't his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?"
- So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
- When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back."
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- 此後、亞捫人的王拿轄死了、他兒子接續他作王。
- 大衛說、我要照哈嫩的父親拿轄厚待我的恩典厚待哈嫩。於是大衛差遣使者為他喪父安慰他。大衛的臣僕到了亞捫人的境內見哈嫩、要安慰他、
- 但亞捫人的首領對哈嫩說、大衛差人來安慰你、你想他是尊敬你父親麼.他的臣僕來見你不是為詳察窺探、傾覆這地麼。
- 哈嫩便將大衛臣僕的鬍鬚剃去一半、又割斷他們下半截的衣服、使他們露出下體、打發他們回去。
- 有人將臣僕所遇的事告訴大衛、他就差人去迎接他們、因為他們甚覺羞恥.告訴他們說、可以住在耶利哥等到鬍鬚長起再回來。
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