2 Samuel 8:4
ContextNET © | 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 |
NIV © | David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung all but a hundred of the chariot horses. |
NASB © | David captured from him 1,700 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers; and David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots. |
NLT © | David captured seventeen hundred charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Then he crippled all but one hundred of the chariot horses. |
MSG © | He captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand cavalry, and twenty thousand infantry. He hamstrung all the chariot horses, but saved back a hundred. |
BBE © | And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages. |
NRSV © | David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but left enough for a hundred chariots. |
NKJV © | David took from him one thousand chariots , seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Also David hamstrung all the chariot horses, except that he spared enough of them for one hundred chariots. |
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NET © | 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 |
NET © Notes |
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.” |