Then David [a]defeated (A)Hadadezer, the son of Rehob king of Zobah, as (B)he went to restore his [b]power at the Euphrates River. And David captured from him [c]1,700 horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers; and David (C)hamstrung almost all the chariot horses, but left enough of them for a hundred chariots. When (D)the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David [d]killed twenty-two thousand men among the Arameans.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:3 Lit struck
  2. 2 Samuel 8:3 Lit hand
  3. 2 Samuel 8:4 Here LXX reads as 1 Chr 18:4; partial DSS text appears to also
  4. 2 Samuel 8:5 Lit struck

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