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1 Chronicles 18:4

King James Version (KJV)

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1 Chronicles 18:4

Verse 4 of 17

Scripture focus

And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them an hundred chariots.

1 Chronicles 18:4 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on 1 Chronicles 18:4

Theological / Devotional

Seven thousand horsemen. The parallel passage reads “seven hundred horsemen” (2 Samuel 8:4). The LXX reads 7,000 in both instances (see pp. 122, 123).

Houghed. That is, hamstrung. The practice was to cut the sinews of the hind legs so as to disable the horses (see Joshua 11:6-9).

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