Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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2 Samuel 10:18
Seven Hundred chariots - and forty thousand Horsemen - In the parallel place, I Chronicles 19:18, it is said, David slew of the Syrians Seven Thousand men, which fought in chariots. It is difficult to ascertain the right number in this and similar places. It is very probable that, in former times, the Jews expressed, as they often do now, their numbers, not by words at full length, but by numeral letters; and, as many of the letters bear a great similarity to each other, mistakes might easily creep in when the numeral letters came to be expressed by words at full length. This alone will account for the many mistakes which we find in the numbers in these books, and renders a mistake here very probable. The letter zain , with a dot above, stands for seven thousand, nun for seven hundred: the great similarity of these letters might easily cause the one to be mistaken for the other, and so produce an error in this place.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 2 Samuel 10:18:
2 Samuel 8:1
1 Chronicles 19:18
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