1 Chr 19:18

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fled before Israel.

1Chr 19:13; 1Chr 19:14; Ps 18:32; Ps 33:16; Ps 46:11

seven thousand.

In the parallel passage, "the men of seven hundred chariots;" which difference probably arose from mistaking [N�n,] {noon final}, which stands for 700, for [Zayin,] {zayin,} with a dot above, which denotes 7,000, or vice versa: the great similarity of these letters might easily cause the one to be mistaken for the other.

footmen.

If these troops were as we have suppose, a kind of dismounted cavalry, the terms footmen and horsemen might be indifferently applied to them.

2Sa 10:18

horsemen.