2David said, "I''d like to show some kindness to Hanun, the son of Nahash--treat him as well and as kindly as his father treated me." So David sent Hanun condolences regarding his father. But when David''s servants got to the land of the Ammonites,
2 Samuel 10 recounts a diplomatic crisis that escalates into war. King David sends envoys to express sympathy to the newly crowned Ammonite king Hanun after his father Nahash dies. Hanun’s advisors, however, suspect the envoys are spies, so Hanun humiliates them by shaving half t
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