1 Chronicles 19:18 (KJV)
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But the Syrians fled before Israeland David slewof the Syrians seven thousandmen which fought in chariotsand forty thousand footmenand killed Shophachthe captainof the host
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fled before Israel. 1Ch 19:13 1Ch 19:14 Ps 18:32 Ps 33:16 Ps 46:11
footmen.If these troops were as we have suppose, a kind of dismounted cavalry, the terms footmen and horsemen might be indifferently applied to them. 2Sa 10:18
seven thousand.In the parallel passage, "the men of seven hundred chariots;" which difference probably arose from mistaking [Nûwn,] {noon final}, which stands for 700, for [Zayin,] {zayin,} with a dot above, which denotes 7,000, or vice versa: the great similarity of these letters might easily cause the one to be mistaken for the other. horsemen.
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