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|1 Crónicas 19:1|
In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, and his son succeeded him as king.
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|1 Crónicas 19:2|
David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
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|1 Crónicas 19:3|
the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, “Do you think David is honouring your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Haven’t his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?”
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|1 Crónicas 19:4|
So Hanun seized David’s men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
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|1 Crónicas 19:5|
When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.”
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|1 Crónicas 19:6|
When the Ammonites realised that they had become an offence to David’s nostrils, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents [That is, about 34 tons (about 34 metric tons)] of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, [That is, North-west Mesopotamia] Aram Maacah and Zobah.
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|1 Crónicas 19:7|
They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and charioteers, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba, while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and moved out for battle.
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|1 Crónicas 19:8|
On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men.
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|1 Crónicas 19:9|
The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.
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|1 Crónicas 19:10|
Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.
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