Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageDavid captured a thousand chariots, seven thousand cavalry, and twenty thousand infantry. He hamstrung all the chariot horses but kept a hundred chariots for himself.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GDawid took from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Dawid hamstrung all the chariot horses, but kept back a hundred chariots.
KJV
King James VersionAnd 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.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleDavid captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
Footnotes
The figure of 'seven thousand horsemen' diverges from 2 Samuel 8:4's 'seventeen hundred horsemen,' likely reflecting a different manuscript tradition or scribal variant. More theologically significant is the hamstringing of horses (*wayyeaqer*, lit. 'and he severed the sinew') — a direct echo of the Deuteronomic law forbidding the king from multiplying horses (Deuteronomy 17:16). David's act of crippling his own military advantage signals covenantal obedience over strategic self-interest.
