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.

Bible References

And shaved

Leviticus 19:27
Do not shave the hair on your foreheads. Do not cut the edges of your beard.
1 Chronicles 19:3
The Ammonite nobles said to Hanun: Do you think David honors your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Or have his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?
Psalm 109:4
In return for my love, they accuse me, but I pray for them.
Isaiah 15:2
They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off.

Cut off

Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away stripped and barefoot the Egyptian captives and Cushite exiles, young and old, with buttocks bared to Egypt's shame.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt; uncover the leg and cross the rivers.
Jeremiah 41:5
Eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. Their beards were shaved off, their clothes were torn, and cuts were on their bodies. They brought grain offerings and incense to Jehovah's Temple.