1 Chronicles 18:4
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| Overview - 1 Chronicles 18 | |
| 1 | David subdues the Philistines and the Moabites. |
| 3 | He smites Hadarezer and the Syrians. |
| 9 | Tou sends Hadoram with presents to bless David. |
| 11 | The presents and the spoil David dedicates to God. |
| 13 | He puts garrisons in Edom. |
| 14 | David's officers. |
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1 Chronicles 18:4 (King James Version)
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
- seven thousand
- 2 Samuel 8:4
- seven hundred
- David.
- The words {wyakker Dawid eth col haraichev,} should be rendered, "and David disjointed all the chariots;" which is nearly the rendering of the LXX., [kai paraluse David panta ta armata.] To have houghed the horses would have been both unreasonable and inhuman; for, as he had gained so complete a victory, there was no danger of their falling into the hands of the enemy; and if he did not choose to keep them, which indeed the law would not permit, he ought to have killed them outright.
- houghed
- Deuteronomy 17:16 ; Joshua 11:6 Joshua 11:9 ; Psalms 20:7 ; Psalms 33:16 Psalms 33:17
- an hundred chariots
- 1 Kings 4:2 ; 10:26