Discovery Box1 Chronicles 10:9 
Context10:9 They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people.
1 Chronicles 19:4
Context19:4 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.
1 Chronicles 19:6
Context19:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, 3 Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents 4 of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah, and Zobah. 5
1 Chronicles 19:16
Context19:16 When the Arameans realized they had been defeated by Israel, they sent for reinforcements from beyond the Euphrates River, 6 led by Shophach the commanding general of Hadadezer’s army. 7
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 “that they were a stench [i.e., disgusting] with David.”
4 tn The Hebrew word כִּכַּר (kikar, “circle”) refers generally to something that is round. When used of metals it can refer to a disk-shaped weight made of the metal or, by extension, to a standard unit of weight. According to the older (Babylonian) standard the “talent” weighed 130 lbs. (58.9 kg), but later this was lowered to 108.3 lbs. (49.1 kg). More recent research suggests the “light” standard talent was 67.3 lbs. (30.6 kg). Using this as the standard for calculation, the Ammonites hired chariots and charioteers for about 33.7 tons (30,600 kg) of silver.
5 tn The parallel text of 2 Sam 10:6 has “Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah.”
6 tn Heb “the River,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “and Aram saw that they were struck down before Israel and they sent messengers and brought out Aram which is beyond the River, and Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer [was] before them.”
