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1 Chronicles 19:5

in 1 Chronicles 19

When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

KJV

Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

This verse in 1 Chronicles 19

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun

on 1 Chronicles 19:3-5

The princes' suspicion and the insult that follows track Samuel's account exactly. Hanun “shaved their beards, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away”, and a shorn beard was a mark of shame. Adam Clarke notes the Targum's plainer reading of what the cutting exposed.

This site's exposition

Stay in Jericho until your

David hears of the shame and sends messengers to meet his men on the road. They wait at Jericho until their beards grow back. Adam Clarke's note on verse 4 sends the reader to 2 Samuel 10:4 for the same insult.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more. How the hearts of sinners that are marked for ruin are hardened to their destruction.

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The words behind it

21 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֵּלְכוּ֩and people went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • וַיַּגִּ֨ידוּand they told

    vaiyagiduH5046 →370 times

  • לְדָוִ֤ידto David

    ledavidH1732 →999 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָֽאֲנָשִׁים֙the men

    haanashimH582 →566 times

  • וַיִּשְׁלַ֣חand he sent

    vaiyishlachH7971 →845 times

  • לִקְרָאתָ֔םto meet them

    likratamH7122 →139 times

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • הָי֥וּthey were

    hayuH1961 →3559 times

  • הָאֲנָשִׁ֖יםthe men

    haanashimH582 →566 times

  • נִכְלָמִ֣יםhumiliated

    nikhlamimH3637 →

  • מְאֹ֑דexceedingly

    meodH3966 →300 times

  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙the king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • שְׁב֣וּremain

    shevuH3427 →1079 times

  • בִֽירֵח֔וֹat Jericho

    virechoH3405 →

  • עַ֛דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־that

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • יְצַמַּ֥חit will grow back

    yetzamachH6779 →

  • זְקַנְכֶ֖םbeard your

    zekankhemH2206 →

  • וְשַׁבְתֶּֽם׃and you will return

    veshavtemH7725 →1056 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 16:34

    In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 6:26

      At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations;…

  • Through

    Judges 16:22

    However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:44

      Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I…

    • Psalms 107:13–14

      Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.

    • Psalms 106:44–45

      Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

    • Deuteronomy 32:36

      For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

  • Through

    Matthew 18:31

    When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and recounted all of this to their master.

    it leads to

    • Romans 12:15

      Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

    • Mark 3:5

      Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.

    • Hebrews 13:3

      Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.

Where this verse is studied

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About 1 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.