2 Samuel 10:4-6

Living Bible

⁴ So Hanun took David’s men and shaved off half their beards and cut their robes off at the buttocks and sent them home half naked. ⁵ When David heard what had happened he told them to stay at Jericho until their beards grew out; for the men were very embarrassed over their appearance.

⁶ Now the people of Ammon realized how seriously they had angered David, so they hired twenty thousand Syrian mercenaries from the lands of Rehob and Zobah, one thousand from the king of Maacah, and ten thousand from the land of Tob.