2 Samuel 10:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved off half their beards,  cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.

Cross References

Isaiah 20:4

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

Jeremiah 41:5

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

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 chopped short.

Leviticus 19:27

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

2 Samuel 10:5

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.’