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1 Chronicles 18:4

1 Chronicles 18:4
And 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.

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Matthew Henry

1 Chronicles 18:1-8

After this, it is said (Ch1 18:1), David did those great exploits. After the sweet communion he had had with God by the word and prayer, as mentioned in the foregoing chapter, he went on his work with…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen Sam. a thousand and seven hundred horsemen(so Heb. but LXX. of Sam. agrees with Chron.). Houghed= "hamstrung."