“And Dauid tooke from him a thousand charets, and seuen hundred horsemen, and twentie thousand footemen: and Dauid houghed all the charet horses, but reserued of them for an hundred charets.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
8:4 Seven hundred - Or, seven hundred companies of horsemen, that is, in all seven thousand; as it is #1Chron 18:4|, there being ten in each company, and each ten having a ruler or captain. Houghed - - That is, cut the sinews of their legs, that they might be useless for war.