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1 Chronicles 19:2

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David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

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1 Chronicles 19:2 in other translations

And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

1 Chronicles 19:2 · American Standard Version

1 Chronicles 19:2 in context

  1. 1After this, Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.
  2. 2David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
    So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
  3. 3But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”
  4. 4So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle at their buttocks, and sent them away.