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1 Chronicles 19:2
And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.

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1 Chronicles 19:1
Now it came about after this that death came to Nahash, the king of the children of Ammon, and his son became king in his place.

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1 Chronicles 19:3
But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?

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1 Chronicles 19:4
So Hanun took David's servants, and cutting off their hair and the skirts of their robes up to the middle, sent them away.

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1 Chronicles 20:3
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

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