2 Samuel 8:4

8:4 David seized from him 1,700 charioteers8 and 20,000 infantrymen. David cut the hamstrings of all but a hundred of the chariot horses.9

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8	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.
9	tn Heb “and David cut the hamstrings of all the chariot horses, and he left from them a hundred chariot horses.”