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 24:9
Context24:9 Joab reported the number of warriors 3 to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.


[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.”
[24:9] 3 tn Heb “and Joab gave the number of the numbering of the people.”