2 Samuel 10:4

The Ammonites Refuse David's Loyal Love

³ the Ammonite leaders said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent men with condolences for you, do you really believe he’s showing respect for your father? Instead, hasn’t David sent his emissaries in order to scout out the city, spy on it, and demolish it?” ⁴ So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved off half their beards, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away. ⁵ When this was reported to David, he sent someone to meet them, since they were deeply humiliated. The king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back; then return.”

David

Hanun

Isaiah 20:4

so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon went up to its temple
to weep at its high places.
Moab wails on Nebo and at Medeba.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is cut off.

Leviticus 19:27

You are not to cut off the hair at the sides of your head or mar the edge of your beard.

Jeremiah 41:5

80 men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria who had shaved their beards, torn their garments, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 19:3-4

the Ammonite leaders said to Hanun, “Just because David has sent men with condolences for you, do you really believe he’s showing respect for your father? Instead, hasn’t David sent his emissaries in order to scout out, overthrow, and spy on the land?”

Psalm 109:4-5

In return for my love they accuse me,
but I continue to pray.

Isaiah 47:2-3

Take millstones and grind meal;
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.