2 Samuel 8:4
Context8:4 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 11:15
Context11:15 In the letter he wrote: “Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.”
2 Samuel 16:9
Context16:9 Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!”
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.”