2 Samuel 1:4

1:4 David inquired, “How were things going? ¹  Tell me!” He replied, “The people fled from the battle and many of them ²  fell dead. ³  Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!”

2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers ⁴  and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses. ⁵ 

[1:4]  ¹ tn Heb “What was the word?”

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “from the people.”

[1:4]  ³ tn Heb “fell and died.”

[8:4]  ⁴ 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.

[8:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”