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Text -- 2 Samuel 10:1-7 (NET)
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David and the Ammonites
10:1 Later the king of the Ammonites died and his son Hanun succeeded him.
10:2 David said , “I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal to me .” So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father’s death. When David’s servants entered the land of the Ammonites ,
10:3 the Ammonite officials said to their lord Hanun , “Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy ? No , David has sent his servants to you to get information about the city and spy on it so they can overthrow it!”
10:4 So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved off half of each one’s beard . He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, and then sent them away .
10:5 Messengers told David what had happened , so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated . The king said , “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown again; then you may come back .”
10:6 When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, they sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah , in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob .
10:7 When David heard the news, he sent Joab and the entire army to meet them.
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NET Notes: 2Sa 10:2 Heb “and David sent to console him by the hand of his servants concerning his father.”
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NET Notes: 2Sa 10:3 Heb “Is it not to explore the city and to spy on it and to overthrow it [that] David has sent his servants to you?”
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NET Notes: 2Sa 10:6 Or perhaps “the men of Tob.” The ancient versions (the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate) understand the name to be “Ish-tob....
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