BRAGADAYJAH 139

Sunday, April 10, 2016

BRAGADAYJAH 932

BRAGADAYJAH 932
David’s offer of friendship rebuffed.

In course of time the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son Hanun succeeded him. And king David decided to show kindness to Hanun because Hanun’s father had shown kindness to him. So after his farther died, David sent a messengers to Hanun to offer him condolence.  But on their arrival Hanun’s princes persuaded him that David’s messengers were not there to offer condolence but rather to spy out the land with a view toward invading it. So heeding the advice of his princes, Hanun took David’s messengers and shaved one side of their beard and cut off their garments to expose their buttocks and sent them back to David; and when the report of the treatment of his servants reached David, he sent messengers to them to tell them not to return until their beards had re-grown as the messengers were made to feel shame by the loss of their beards. Realizing that their actions greatly offended David, the children of Ammon hired twenty thousand footmen together with a thousand men of the king of Maacah and twelve thousands of the king of Ishtob.  And when David heard of it, he sent Joab to lead the host of his mighty men against the children of Ammon and their allies. And the children of Ammon came out in battle array against the host of Israel.  And in the course of the battle the allies of the Ammonites fled before Joab; and when the children of Ammon saw that their allies had fled, they also fled; and Joab returned to Jerusalem.

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