Joshua did to them as the Lord had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

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David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers[a] and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung(A) all but a hundred of the chariot horses.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 8:4 Septuagint (see also Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Chron. 18:4); Masoretic Text captured seventeen hundred of his charioteers

David captured a thousand of his chariots, seven thousand charioteers and twenty thousand foot soldiers. He hamstrung(A) all but a hundred of the chariot horses.

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Let me not enter their council,
    let me not join their assembly,(A)
for they have killed men in their anger(B)
    and hamstrung(C) oxen as they pleased.

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