And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, who died there.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Hundred. Paralipomenon, thousand, allowing ten men for each chariot. (Du Hamel; Menochius)
The men is omitted in both texts. See chap. viii. 4. (Haydock)
Horsemen. Paralipomenon reads, footmen, supplying what is here omitted, (Salien) so that 87,000 Syrians perished, unless there be a mistake of the transcribers. (Calmet)
Smote, though not perhaps with his own hand, as he slew so many thousands by means of his army. (Menochius)
