1 Chronicles 19:4
Modern Translations
New International Version
So Hanun seized David's envoys, shaved them, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

New Living Translation
So Hanun seized David’s ambassadors and shaved them, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them back to David in shame.

English Standard Version
So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away;

Berean Study Bible
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.

New American Standard Bible
So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them, and cut off their robes in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away.

NASB 1995
So Hanun took David's servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

NASB 1977
So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

Amplified Bible
Therefore Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them [cutting off half their beards], and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away [in humiliation].

Christian Standard Bible
So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So Hanun took David's emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.

Contemporary English Version
Hanun arrested David's officials and had their beards shaved off and their robes cut off just below the waist, and then he sent them away.

Good News Translation
Hanun seized David's messengers, shaved off their beards, cut off their clothes at the hips, and sent them away.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So Hanun took David's men, shaved them, cut off their clothes from the waist down, and sent them away.

International Standard Version
So Hanun arrested David's delegation, shaved off their beards, cut off their clothes at the waist line, and sent them away in disgrace.

NET Bible
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.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Therefore Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their buttocks, and sent them away.

King James 2000 Bible
Therefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.

New Heart English Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.

American King James Version
Why Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And Hanun took David's servants and shaved them, and cut off their garments in half, to the buttocks, and sent them away.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Wherefore Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued them, & cut off their garments by the halfe vnto the buttocks, and sent them away.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wherefore Hanon toke Dauids seruauntes, and shaued them, and cut of their coates harde by their buttockes, & sent them away.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Then toke Hanun the seruauntes of Dauid, and shoue them, & cut the halfe of their garmentes of, eue by the loynes, & so let the go.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And Hanun takes the servants of David and shaves them, and cuts their long robes in the midst, to the buttocks, and sends them away.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Smith's Literal Translation
And Hanun will take David's servants and shave them, and cut off their garments in the half, even to the step, and he will send them away.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore Hanon shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and cut away their garments from the buttocks to the feet, and sent them away.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so Hanun shaved the heads and beards of the servants of David, and he cut away their tunics from the buttocks to the feet, and he sent them away.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And Khanun took the Servants of David, and he shaved the half of their beards and the half of their heads, and he cut off their tunics unto their navels, and he sent them away.

Lamsa Bible
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OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their hips, and sent them away.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Anan took the servants of David, and shaved them, and cut off the half of their garments as far as their tunic, and sent them away.
















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