1 Chronicles 18:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ David took from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand cavalry, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left one hundred of them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ David took from him 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. David also hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved enough for 100 chariots.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots.

Common English Bible

⁴ David captured one thousand chariots from him, seven thousand cavalry, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. Then David cut the hamstrings of all but one hundred of the chariot horses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Then David seized one thousand of his four-horse chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand men on foot. And he hamstrung all the chariot horses, except for one hundred four-horse chariots, which he reserved for himself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and he houghed all the chariot horses, only a hundred chariots, which he reserved for himself.

1 Chronicles 18:4 Cross References

Genesis 49:6

May I never come into their council; may I not be joined to their company, for in their anger they killed men, and at their whim they hamstrung oxen.

2 Samuel 8:4

David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers. David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for a hundred chariots.

1 Kings 10:26

Solomon gathered together chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

1 Kings 4:2

and these were his high officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;

1 Chronicles 18:3

David also struck down King Hadadezer of Zobah, toward Hamath, as he went to set up a monument at the River Euphrates.

1 Chronicles 18:5

When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand Arameans.

Psalm 20:7

Some take pride in chariots and some in horses, but our pride is in the name of the Lord our God.

Deuteronomy 17:16

Even so, he must not acquire many horses for himself or return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You must never return that way again.’

Joshua 11:6

And the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will hand over all of them, slain, to Israel; you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”

Joshua 11:9

And Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.