And he smote Moab, and measured them with a cord, and cast them down to the ground: he measured them with [a]two cords to put them to death, and with one full cord to keep them alive: so became the Moabites David’s servants, and brought gifts.

¶ David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as he went to [b]recover his border at the river [c]Euphrates.

And David took of them a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and David [d]destroyed all the chariots, but he reserved an hundred chariots of them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:2 He slew two parts as it pleased him, and reserved the third.
  2. 2 Samuel 8:3 Or, enlarge.
  3. 2 Samuel 8:3 Hebrew, Perath.
  4. 2 Samuel 8:4 Or, bought the horses of the chariots.

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