Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and  They shaved off half of their beards, (2Sa_10:4).  shaved them, and cut off their  To put them to shame and villany, while the ambassadors should have been honoured: and because the Jews used to wear side garments and beards, they thus disfigured them, to make them odious to others.  garments in the midst hard by their buttocks, and sent them away.