2 Samuel 10:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Tarry at Jericho Which was the first place to which they came in the land of Canaan, and then a private village, where they might remain obscure till they were fit to appear in public. Until your beards be grown For though it was well known how they came to be deprived of them, yet it was not fit that persons of their quality should appear unlike all other men.

2 Samuel 10:5

5 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.