2 Samuel 8:4
Context8:4 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
2 Samuel 24:3
Context24:3 Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”


[8:4] 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.
[8:4] 2 tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”