Beard, The

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• 2 Samuel 10:5 OT

  When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”

• Psalms 133:2 OT

  It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron’s beard, that came down on the edge of his robes,

• 1 Samuel 20:9 OT

  Jonathan said, “Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn’t I tell you that?”

• 2 Samuel 10:4 OT

  So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

• 2 Samuel 10:6 OT

  When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the…

• 2 Samuel 10:7 OT

  When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the army of the mighty men.

• Isaiah 50:6 OT

  I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

• 1 Samuel 21:13 OT

  He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

• 2 Samuel 19:24 OT

  Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

• Jeremiah 48:37 OT

  For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.

• Jeremiah 41:5 OT

  men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to Yahweh’s house.

• Ezra 9:3 OT

  When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

• Leviticus 19:27 OT

  “ ‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.

• Leviticus 21:5 OT

  “ ‘They shall not shave their heads or shave off the corners of their beards or make any cuttings in their flesh.

• Leviticus 13:29 OT

  “When a man or woman has a plague on the head or on the beard,

• Leviticus 13:30 OT

  then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch. It is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 14:9 OT

  It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water. Then he shall be clean.

• Isaiah 7:20 OT

  In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

• Isaiah 15:2 OT

  They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

• Ezekiel 5:1 OT

  “You, son of man, take a sharp sword. You shall take it as a barber’s razor to yourself, and shall cause it to pass over your head and over your beard. Then take balances to weigh and divide the hair.