David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung(A) all but a hundred of the chariot horses.

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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

16 No king is saved by the size of his army;(A)
    no warrior escapes by his great strength.
17 A horse(B) is a vain hope for deliverance;
    despite all its great strength it cannot save.

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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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26 Solomon accumulated chariots and horses;(A) he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:26 Or charioteers

And these were his chief officials:(A)

Azariah(B) son of Zadok—the priest;

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Joshua did to them as the Lord had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

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The Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand(A) all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring(B) their horses and burn their chariots.”(C)

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16 The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses(A) for himself(B) or make the people return to Egypt(C) to get more of them,(D) for the Lord has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”(E)

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