Shaved — To fasten this is a reproach upon them, and to make them ridiculous and contemptible. Cut off, &c. — This was worse than the former, because the Israelites wore no breeches, and so their nakedness was hereby uncovered.
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2 Samuel 10:4
4 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.