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2 Samuel 8:4
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2 Samuel 8:4
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4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers[a] and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but 100 of the chariot horses.[b]
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- 2 Samuel 8:4 tc The LXX has “1,000 chariots and 7,000 charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.
- 2 Samuel 8:4 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them 100 chariot horses.”
2 Samuel 10:18
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2 Samuel 10:18
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18 The Arameans fled before Israel. David killed 700 Aramean charioteers and 40,000 foot soldiers.[a] He also struck down Shobach, the general in command of the army, who died there.
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- 2 Samuel 10:18 tn Heb “horsemen” (so KJV, NASB, NCV, NRSV, NLT) but the Lucianic recension of the LXX reads “foot soldiers,” as does the parallel text in 1 Chr 19:18. Cf. NAB, NIV.
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