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1st Chronicles Chapter 19 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV 1stChronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
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BBE 1stChronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.
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DARBY 1stChronicles 19:4

And Hanun took David's servants, and had them shaved, and their raiment cut off in the midst, as far as the hip, and sent them away.
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KJV 1stChronicles 19:4

Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
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WBT 1stChronicles 19:4

Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.
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WEB 1stChronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
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YLT 1stChronicles 19:4

And Hanun taketh the servants of David, and shaveth them, and cutteth their long robes in the midst, unto the buttocks, and sendeth them away.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - The classical scholar will not fail to be reminded, so far as the shaving here spoken of is concerned, of the account contained in Herodotus, 2:121. The parallel place makes the resemblance close, in that it tells us that "one-half of their beards" was shaved. To shave them was an affront to their customs, dignity, and religion: to shave them half added mockery; and to cut off half their garments completed the tale of ignominious and contemptuous insult (Isaiah 20:4). The beard was held almost in reverence by Easterns.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Shaved them--i.e., the half of their beards (Samuel).Hard by their buttocks.--Literally, unto the extremities. The chronicler has substituted a more decorous term for the one which appears in Samuel.Cut off their garments.--To look like captives (Isaiah 20:4).