Isaiah 50:6 (KJV)

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I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting
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gave. La 3:30 Mic 5:1 Mt 5:39 Mt 26:67 Mt 27:26 Mr 14:65 Mr 15:19 Lu 22:63 Lu 22:64 Joh 18:22 Heb 12:2

that plucked. Ne 13:25

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. 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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