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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.”