David also defeated Hadadezer(A) son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his control at the Euphrates River. David captured seventeen hundred horsemen[a] and twenty thousand foot soldiers from him, and he hamstrung all the horses(B) and kept a hundred chariots.[b]

When the Arameans of Damascus(C) came to assist King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand Aramean men.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:4 LXX, DSS read 1,000 chariots and 7,000 horsemen
  2. 8:4 Or chariot horses

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