2 Samuel 10:1-5

11Now it happened afterward that 2the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king in his place. 2Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of 3Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent 4some of his servants to console him about his father. But when David’s servants came to the land of the Ammonites, 3the commanders of the Ammonites said to their lord Hanun, “5Do you think that David is simply honoring your father since he has sent you servants 6to console you? 7Has David not sent his servants to you in order to explore the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?” 4So Hanun took David’s servants and 8shaved off half of their beards, and 9cut off their robes in the middle as far as their buttocks, and sent them away. 5When messengers informed David, he sent servants to meet them, because the men were extremely humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow back, and then you shall return.”