2 Samuel 10:1-2

New Living Translation

David Defeats the Ammonites

10 Some time after this, King Nahash^[a] of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king. ² David said, “I am going to show loyalty to Hanun just as his father, Nahash, was always loyal to me.” So David sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanun about his father’s death.

But when David’s ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,