2 Samuel 8:4 (KJV)

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And David took from him a thousand chariots and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen and David houghed all the chariot horses but reserved of them for an hundred chariots

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David houghed. De 17:16 Jos 11:6 Jos 11:9 Ps 20:7 Ps 33:16 Ps 33:17

reserved. 1Ki 10:26

from him. or, of his. chariots.As 1 Ch 18:4 seven hundred. In the parallel place in Chronicles it is "seven thousand horsemen, a far more probable number. The letter [Zayin,] {zayin,} with a dot upon it stands for seven thousand, and the final letter Nûwn,] {noon,} for seven hundred: the great similarity of these letters might easily cause the one to be mistaken for the other, and so produce an error in this place.

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