I Chronicles 18:4
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David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
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INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 18 The eighteenth and nineteenth chapters are the same with Sa2 8:1 with very little variations, which are observed in the notes on them, to which the reader is referred.
Open source ↗David's piety and his prayer we had an account of in the foregoing chapter; here follows immediately that which one might reasonably expect, an account of his prosperity; for those that seek first the kingdom of God and the righteousness thereof, as David did, shall have other things added to them as far as God sees good for them. Here is, I. His prosperity abroad. He conquered the Philistines (Ch1 18:1), the Moabites (Ch1 18:2), the king of Zobah (Ch1 18:3, Ch1 18:4), the Syrians (Ch1 18:5-8), made the king of Hamath his tributary (Ch1 18:9-11), and the Edomites (Ch1 18:12, Ch1 18:13). II. His prosperity at home. His court and kingdom flourished (Ch1 18:14-17). All this we had an account of before, 2 Sa. 8.
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David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”
and these were his chief officials: Azariah son of Zadok was the priest;