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?

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.