2 Samuel 1:6

1:6 The young man who was telling him this ¹  said, “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.

2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ²  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ³ 

¹ tc The Syriac Peshitta and one ms of the LXX lack the words “who was telling him this” of the MT.

² 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.

³ tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”