David captured seventeen hundred horsemen[a] and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him, and he hamstrung all the horses(A) and kept a hundred chariots.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:4 LXX, DSS read 1,000 chariots and 7,000 horsemen
  2. 8:4 Or chariot horses

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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:4 Septuagint (see also Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Chron. 18:4); Masoretic Text captured seventeen hundred of his charioteers

Some take pride in chariots, and others in horses,
but we take pride in the name of the Lord our God.(A)

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Some trust in chariots(A) and some in horses,(B)
    but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.(C)

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