2Sa 10:4-5 | TNotes | STEP | 10:4 Shaving half of each man’s beard was intended to maximize the humiliation and ridicule. • cut off their robes: The humiliating display of genitalia or the buttocks was associated with military defeat and exile (Isa 20 ).

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d1 Kgs 16:34►

‏ 2 Samuel 10:4-5

10:4 ^a Shaving half of each man’s beard was intended to maximize the humiliation and ridicule.

• cut off their robes: The humiliating display of genitalia or the buttocks was associated with military defeat and exile (Isa 20 ^b).
10:5 ^c The city of Jericho had not yet been formally reconstructed (see 1 Kgs 16:34 ^d), but the site was located adjacent to the largest and most plentiful spring in the land, so people continued to dwell in the area. Anyone traveling from Ammon to Jerusalem would pass right by it. It was a place of seclusion from the men’s humiliation.