Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
And shaved
Cut off
Bible References
And shaved
Leviticus 19:27
You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.
1 Chronicles 19:3
But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, "Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Have not his servants come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?"
Psalm 109:4
In return for my love they accuse me, but I give myself to prayer.
Isaiah 15:2
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn;
Cut off
Isaiah 20:4
so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Jeremiah 41:5
eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.