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2 Samuel 8:4
New English Translation
2 Samuel 8:4
New English Translation
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 8:4
New International Version
2 Samuel 8:4
New International Version
4 David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers[a] and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung(A) all but a hundred of the chariot horses.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 8:4 Septuagint (see also Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Chron. 18:4); Masoretic Text captured seventeen hundred of his charioteers
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