ECB(i)
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DAVID DEFEATS THE SONS OF AMMON AND THE ARAMIY
And so be it, afterward, the sovereign of the sons of Ammon dies and Hanun his son reigns in his stead. 2 And David says, I work mercy to Hanun the son of Nachash as his father worked mercy to me. And David sends to sigh over him by the hand of his servants concerning his father: and the servants of David come into the land of the sons of Ammon. 3 And the governors of the sons of Ammon say to Hanun their adoni, In your eyes, is it because David honors your father, that he sends to sigh over you? Sends not David his servants to you to probe the city and to spy it out and to overturn it? 4 And Hanun takes the servants of David and shaves off one half of their beards and cuts off their garments in the middle to their buttocks and sends them away. 5 And they tell David; and he sends to meet them; because the men shame mightily. And the sovereign says, Settle at Yericho until your beards sprout and return. 6 And the sons of Ammon see that they stink to David; and the sons of Ammon send and hire the Aramiy of Beth Rechob and the Aramiy of Sobah twenty thousand on foot; and of sovereign Maachah a thousand men; and of Ish Tob twelve thousand men:
DAVID DEFEATS THE SONS OF AMMON AND THE ARAMIY
And so be it, afterward, the sovereign of the sons of Ammon dies and Hanun his son reigns in his stead. 2 And David says, I work mercy to Hanun the son of Nachash as his father worked mercy to me. And David sends to sigh over him by the hand of his servants concerning his father: and the servants of David come into the land of the sons of Ammon. 3 And the governors of the sons of Ammon say to Hanun their adoni, In your eyes, is it because David honors your father, that he sends to sigh over you? Sends not David his servants to you to probe the city and to spy it out and to overturn it? 4 And Hanun takes the servants of David and shaves off one half of their beards and cuts off their garments in the middle to their buttocks and sends them away. 5 And they tell David; and he sends to meet them; because the men shame mightily. And the sovereign says, Settle at Yericho until your beards sprout and return. 6 And the sons of Ammon see that they stink to David; and the sons of Ammon send and hire the Aramiy of Beth Rechob and the Aramiy of Sobah twenty thousand on foot; and of sovereign Maachah a thousand men; and of Ish Tob twelve thousand men: