2 Samuel 8:2-4
New American Standard Bible
2 (A)And He [a]defeated (B)Moab, and measured them with the line, making them lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and a full line to keep alive. And (C)the Moabites became servants to David, (D)bringing tribute.
3 Then David [b]defeated (E)Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as (F)he went to restore his [c]power at the Euphrates River. 4 And David captured from him [d]1,700 horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David (G)hamstrung almost all the chariot horses, but left enough of them for a hundred chariots.
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- 2 Samuel 8:2 Lit struck
- 2 Samuel 8:3 Lit struck
- 2 Samuel 8:3 Lit hand
- 2 Samuel 8:4 Here LXX reads as 1 Chr 18:4; partial DSS text appears to also
2 Samuel 8:2-4
New International Version
2 David also defeated the Moabites.(A) He made them lie down on the ground and measured them off with a length of cord. Every two lengths of them were put to death, and the third length was allowed to live. So the Moabites became subject to David and brought him tribute.(B)
3 Moreover, David defeated Hadadezer(C) son of Rehob, king of Zobah,(D) when he went to restore his monument at[a] the Euphrates(E) River. 4 David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers[b] and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung(F) all but a hundred of the chariot horses.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 8:3 Or his control along
- 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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