Tsir Joshua 9:4Proverbs 13:17Isaiah 18:2Jeremiah 49:14Obadiah 1:1 Melits 2 Chronicles 32:31 Malak 2 Chronicles 35:21Isaiah 30:433:7Ezekiel 17:152 Corinthians 5:20Ephesians 6:20

The Hebrews on various occasions and for various purposes had recourse to the services of ambassadors, e.g., to contract alliances (Joshua 9:4 ), to solicit favours (Numbers 20:14 ), to remonstrate when wrong was done (Judges 11:12 ), to condole with a young king on the death of his father (2 Samuel 10:2 ), and to congratulate a king on his accession to the throne (1 Kings 5:1 ).

To do injury to an ambassador was to insult the king who sent him (2 Samuel 10:5 ).