Isaiah 50:6

gave.

La 3:30; Mic 5:1; Mt 5:39; 26:67; 27:26; Mr 14:65; 15:19

Lu 22:63,64; Joh 18:22; Heb 12:2

my cheeks.The eastern people always held the beard in great veneration; and to pluck a man's beard is one of the grossest indignities that can be offered. D'Arvieux gives a remarkable instance of an Arab, who, having received a wound in his jaw, chose to hazard his life rather than suffer the surgeon to cut off his beard. See Note on 2 Sa 10:4.

that plucked.

Ne 13:25

I hid.Another instance of the utmost contempt and detestation. Throughout the East it is highly offensive to spit in any one's presence; and if this is such an indignity, how much more spitting in the face?
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