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

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.