1 Chronicles 19:4-5
19:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved their beards off. 1 He cut off the lower part of their robes so that their buttocks were exposed 2 and then sent them away.
19:5 Messengers 3 came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho 4 until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”
1 tn Heb “shaved them.” See v. 5.
2 tn Heb “and he cut their robes in the middle unto the buttocks.”
3 tn Heb “they.” The logical referent, though not specified in the Hebrew text, has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
4 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.