1 Chronicles 19:4

shaved them 2 Samuel 10:4, shaved off the one half of iheir beards. Of course a great insult; cp. Isaiah 50:6.

cut off their garments Jewish ambassadors are represented on the Black Obelisk (a monument of Shalmaneser II, king of Assyria, now preserved in the British Museum) as wearing robes reaching to the feet; Hanun reduced ambassadors to the level of captives; cp. Isaiah 20:4.