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1 It happened after this, that the king of the people of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place. 2 David said, |I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.| So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the people of Ammon. 3 But the leaders of the people of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, |Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?| 4 So Hanun took David's servants and shaved off their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 When David was told, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, |Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.| 6 When the people of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the people of Ammon sent and hired the Arameans of Beth Rehob, and the Arameans of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men. 7 When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men. 8 The people of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate: and the Arameans of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field. 9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Arameans: 2 Samuel 10:1-9, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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