1 Chronicles 19:3-5

Revised Geneva Translation

³ And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Did you think that David honors your father because he has sent comforters to you? Have not his servants come to you to search, to seek and to spy out the land?”

⁴ Therefore, Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut their garments in half to the buttocks and sent them away.

⁵ And some went and told David about the men. And he sent to meet them (for the men were very ashamed). And the king said, “Remain in Jericho until your beards have grown. Then return.”