Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Reserved

Bible References

David houghed

Deuteronomy 17:16
And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.
Joshua 11:6
And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.
Psalm 20:7
Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 33:16
A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

Reserved

1 Kings 10:26
And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain