And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
David lui prit mille sept cents cavaliers et vingt mille hommes de pied; il coupa les jarrets à tous les chevaux de trait, et ne conserva que cent attelages.
KJV
And David took from him a thousand [chariots], and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] an hundred chariots.
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 193 (Migne)
illibus, cum reverteretur, posuit in Idumaea custodes, et facta est universa Idumaea serviens David (II Reg. VIII, 1-10) . Qualiter autem converterit Joab non legimus, nisi, quod cum mortuo Saulo rex constitutus cepisset arcem Sion, [Col. 1749A] dixit: «Qui in primis percusserit…
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