2 Samuel 8:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.

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  • Josh 11:6 : 6 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
  • Josh 11:9 : 9 Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
  • 1 Kgs 10:26 : 26 Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
  • 1 Chr 18:4 : 4 David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
  • Ps 20:7 : 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, But we trust the name of Yahweh our God.
  • Ps 33:16-17 : 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety, Neither does he deliver any by his great power.
  • Deut 17:16 : 16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, You shall henceforth return no more that way.

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  • 1 Chr 18:3-5
    3 verses
    97%

    3David struck Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

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

    5When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadarezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 10:17-18
    2 verses
    80%

    17It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

    18The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    77%

    5When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
    76%

    26Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 19:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came on them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

    18The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians [the men of] seven thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

  • 2 Chr 9:25
    75%

    25Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 1:14
    75%

    14Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had one thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26
    74%

    26Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    74%

    9David struck the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the donkeys, and the camels, and the clothing; and he returned, and came to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 30:17
    73%

    17David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

  • 2 Sam 8:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.

    13David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 30:20
    73%

    20David took all the flocks and the herds, [which] they drove before those [other] cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.

  • 2 Sam 8:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

    8From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

    9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the host of Hadadezer,

  • Exod 14:7
    72%

    7and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

  • 2 Sam 8:3
    72%

    3David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

  • Neh 7:68
    72%

    68Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

  • 2 Chr 1:17
    72%

    17They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

  • 1 Chr 19:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6When the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent one thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.

    7So they hired them thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people, who came and encamped before Medeba. The children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.

    8When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 2 Kgs 7:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13One of his servants answered, Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel who are consumed); and let us send and see.

    14They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

  • 1 Chr 18:7
    71%

    7David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    71%

    21They took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    71%

    7The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

  • 1 Kgs 10:29
    71%

    29A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred [shekels] of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

  • 2 Sam 18:1
    70%

    1David numbered the people who were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    70%

    5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

  • 2 Kgs 13:7
    70%

    7For he didn't leave to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

  • Ezra 2:66
    70%

    66Their horses were seven hundred thirty-six; their mules, two hundred forty-five;

  • 1 Sam 25:13
    70%

    13David said to his men, Gird you on every man his sword. They girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.

  • 2 Sam 10:7
    70%

    7When David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

  • 1 Sam 13:5
    70%

    5The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

  • 1 Sam 30:10
    69%

    10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.

  • 1 Chr 18:9
    69%

    9When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    69%

    9Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    69%

    4Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

  • Josh 11:9
    69%

    9Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

  • 1 Kgs 20:21
    69%

    21The king of Israel went out, and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Syrians with a great slaughter.

  • Judg 4:13
    69%

    13Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
    69%

    17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

  • 2 Chr 12:3
    69%

    3with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

  • 2 Kgs 7:6
    68%

    6For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.