Discovery Box2 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 15:1
ContextAbsalom Leads an Insurrection against David
15:1 Some time later Absalom managed to acquire 3 a chariot and horses, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard. 4
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 “acquired for himself.”
4 tn Heb “to run ahead of him.”
