1 Chronicles 19:4

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So Hanun seized David’s servants and shaved their beards off. He cut off the lower part of their robes so that their buttocks were exposed and then sent them away.

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  • Lev 19:27 : 27 You must not round off the corners of the hair on your head or ruin the corners of your beard.
  • 2 Sam 10:4-5 : 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. 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.”
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his warnings, and ridiculed his prophets. Finally the LORD got very angry at his people and there was no one who could prevent his judgment.
  • Ps 35:12 : 12 They repay me evil for the good I have done; I am overwhelmed with sorrow.
  • Ps 109:4-5 : 4 They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray. 5 They repay me evil for good, and hate for love.
  • Isa 15:2 : 2 They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.
  • Isa 20:4 : 4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, both young and old. They will be in undergarments and barefoot, with the buttocks exposed; the Egyptians will be publicly humiliated.
  • Isa 47:2-3 : 2 Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams! 3 Let your naked body be exposed! Your shame will be on display! I will get revenge; I will not have pity on anyone,”
  • Jer 41:5 : 5 eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning. They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.
  • Mark 12:4 : 4 So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.
  • Luke 20:10-11 : 10 When harvest time came, he sent a slave to the tenants so that they would give him his portion of the crop. However, the tenants beat his slave and sent him away empty-handed. 11 So he sent another slave. They beat this one too, treated him outrageously, and sent him away empty-handed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 10:1-6
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    1David and the Ammonites Later the king of the Ammonites died and his son Hanun succeeded him.

    2David 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,

    3the 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!”

    4So 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.

    5Messengers 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.”

    6When 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 1000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob.

  • 1 Chr 19:5-6
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    5People came and told David what had happened to the men, so he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said,“Stay in Jericho until your beards grow again; then you may come back.”

    6When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, Hanun and the Ammonites sent 1,000 talents of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah, and Zobah.

  • 1 Chr 19:2-3
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    84%

    2David said,“I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father’s death. When David’s servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king’s sympathy,

    3the Ammonite officials said to Hanun,“Do you really think David is trying to honor your father by sending these messengers to express his sympathy? No, his servants have come to you so they can get information and spy out the land!”

  • 1 Sam 24:4-5
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    4David’s men said to him,“This is the day about which the LORD said to you,‘I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.’” So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

    5Afterward David’s conscience bothered him because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.

  • Isa 20:4
    69%

    4so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, both young and old. They will be in undergarments and barefoot, with the buttocks exposed; the Egyptians will be publicly humiliated.

  • 2 Sam 1:11
    69%

    11David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

  • 1 Chr 19:19
    69%

    19When Hadadezer’s subjects saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became his subjects. The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.

  • 1 Sam 25:12-13
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    12So David’s servants went on their way. When they had returned, they came and told David all these things.

    13Then David instructed his men,“Each of you strap on your sword!” So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.

  • 2 Sam 13:31
    68%

    31Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.

  • 1 Sam 18:24-25
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    24When Saul’s servants reported what David had said,

    25Saul replied,“Here is what you should say to David:‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’”(Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

  • 1 Sam 18:4
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    4Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with the rest of his gear, including his sword, his bow, and even his belt.

  • 2 Sam 4:12
    68%

    12So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

  • Jer 41:5
    68%

    5eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning. They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.

  • Judg 19:29
    67%

    29When he got home, he took a knife, grasped his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

  • 1 Chr 20:3
    67%

    3He removed the city’s residents and made them labor with saws, iron picks, and axes. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

  • Judg 1:6
    67%

    6When Adoni-Bezek ran away, they chased him and captured him. Then they cut off his thumbs and big toes.

  • Judg 20:6
    67%

    6I took hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces throughout the territory occupied by Israel, because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity in Israel.

  • 1 Sam 25:21-22
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    67%

    21Now David had been thinking,“In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.

    22God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!”

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    67%

    9When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

  • 2 Sam 20:9
    67%

    9Joab said to Amasa,“How are you, my brother?” With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa’s beard as if to greet him with a kiss.

  • Isa 7:20
    67%

    20At that time the Lord will use a razor hired from the banks of the Euphrates River, the king of Assyria, to shave the hair off the head and private parts; it will also shave off the beard.

  • 2 Sam 12:31
    66%

    31He removed the people who were in it and made them labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 25:4
    66%

    4When David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep,

  • 1 Chr 18:4
    66%

    4David seized from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 charioteers, and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of Hadadezer’s chariot horses.

  • 2 Sam 19:5
    66%

    5So Joab visited the king at his home. He said,“Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.

  • 1 Chr 19:8
    65%

    8When David heard the news, he sent Joab and the entire army to meet them.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
    65%

    15The king’s servants replied to the king,“We will do whatever our lord the king decides.”

  • 2 Chr 28:15
    65%

    15Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, the city of date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

  • 1 Sam 19:24
    65%

    24He even stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay there naked all that day and night.(For that reason it is asked,“Is Saul also among the prophets?”)

  • 1 Sam 19:16
    65%

    16When the messengers came, they found only the idol on the bed and the quilt made of goat’s hair at its head.

  • Gen 44:13
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    13They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

  • Mark 12:4
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    4So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.

  • 1 Sam 30:17
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    17But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.

  • Neh 4:23
    65%

    23We did not change clothes– not I, nor my relatives, nor my workers, nor the watchmen who were with me. Each had his weapon, even when getting a drink of water.

  • 1 Sam 22:17
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    17Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him,“Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me.” But the king’s servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.

  • Jer 48:37
    65%

    37For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.

  • 2 Sam 19:24
    65%

    24Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely returned, Mephibosheth had not cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes.