18:4a David captured from him a thousand chariots,

David seized one thousand of ⌊Hadadezer’s war⌋ chariots.
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⌊King⌋ David’s ⌊army⌋ captured a thousand two-wheeled war carts pulled by horses which belonged ⌊to king Hadadezer⌋ .

18:4b seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers,

⌊He also⌋ seized seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen ⌊of Hadadezer⌋ .
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⌊David’s army also captured⌋ seven thousand (7,000) men who rode in war carts pulled by horses. ⌊They also captured⌋ twenty thousand (20,000) soldiers. ⌊All the captured men were Hadadezer’s soldiers.⌋

18:4c and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.

He crippled all chariot horses ⌊of Hadadezer⌋ except a hundred of them.
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⌊David’s army⌋ cut the tendons of ⌊many of Hadadezer’s⌋ horses that pulled the war carts. ⌊This crippled them.⌋ ⌊They only left⌋ a hundred horses ⌊that they did not cripple⌋ .

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