2 SAMUEL 10:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.”
So Hanun took David's servants, shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle at their hips, and sent them away - Hanun's response is grotesque humiliation: half-shaved beards and exposed buttocks make the men appear foolish. The insult is calculated to provoke retaliation.
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