Isaiah 50:5-7
Isa 48:8; Ps 40:6-8; Matt 26:39; John 8:29, John 14:31, John 15:10; Phil 2:8; Heb 5:8; Heb 10:5-9 gave Lam 3:30; Mic 5:1; Matt 5:39, Matt 26:67, Matt 27:26; Mark 14:65, Mark 15:19; Luke 22:63-64; John 18:22; Heb 12:2 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 2Sam 10:4. that plucked Neh 13:25 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? the Lord Isa 50:9, Isa 42:1, Isa 49:8; Ps 89:21-27, Ps 110:1; John 16:33; Heb 13:6 I set Jer 1:18; Ezek 3:8-9; Matt 23:13-36; Luke 9:51, Luke 11:39-54; Rom 1:16; 1Pet 4:1, 1Pet 4:16
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