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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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  1. 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. 2 Samuel 8:4 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them 100 chariot horses.”

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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  1. 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.