2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ¹  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ² 

2 Samuel 18:7

18:7 The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. ³  The slaughter there was great that day – 20,000 soldiers were killed.

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¹ tc The LXX has “one thousand chariots and seven thousand charioteers,” a reading adopted in the text of the NIV. See the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:4.

² tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”

³ tn Heb “servants” (also in v. 9).