Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 8:4

4 And David took from him a thousand charets , and seven hundred horsemen , and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the charet horses , but reserved of them for an hundred charets.

Which word is fitly supplied out of 1 Chron. 18. 4. such Substantives being oft understood in the Hebrew Language, as Gen. 26. 30. 2 Sam. 21. 16.

Or, seven hundred Companies of Horsemen, i. e. in all seven thousand; as it is 1 Chr. 18. 4. there being ten in each Company, and each ten having a Ruler or Captain, Exod. 18. 21. Deut. 1. 15. Or, these seven hundred were the Chief and the Rulers of the rest, and the remaining 6300 were the common Horsemen, subject to their Commanders.

i. e. Cut the sinews of their Legs, that they might be useless for War. Compare Ios. 11. 6.

Except the following reserve. Chariots are here put for Chariot-Horses, as they are 1 Sam. 13. 5. 2 Sam. 10. 18. Psal. 76. 6. David did this, because he could not keep them for his own use, Deut. 17. 16.

Marginal references: Or, of his.; As 1 Chron. 18. 4.