1 Chronicles 18:4 (KJV)

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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

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seven thousand. 2Sa 8:4

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

an hundred chariots. 1Ki 4:2 1Ki 10:26

seven hundred. David.The words {wyakker Dawid eth col haraichev,} should be rendered, "and David disjointed all the chariots;" which is nearly the rendering of the LXX., [kai paraluse David panta ta armata.] To have houghed the horses would have been both unreasonable and inhuman; for, as he had gained so complete a victory, there was no danger of their falling into the hands of the enemy; and if he did not choose to keep them, which indeed the law would not permit, he ought to have killed them outright.

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