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1 Chronicles 18:4 Bible in Basic English (BBE)

4 And David took from him a thousand war-carriages and seven thousand horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and he had the leg-muscles of all the horses cut, keeping only enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.

Cross Reference

Psalms 33:16-17 BBE

A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength. A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

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Commentary on 1 Chronicles 18 John Gill's Exposition of the Bible


Introduction

INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 18

The eighteenth and nineteenth chapters are the same with 2 Samuel 8:1 with very little variations, which are observed in the notes on them, to which the reader is referred.


Verses 1-17

See Chapter Introduction