And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew [the men of] seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
Ver. 18. And David slew the men of seven hundred chariots.] Heb., Slew seven hundred chariots; that is, seven thousand men that fought in chariots a 1Ch 19:18
And forty thousand horsemen.] Which yet are said to be footmen. 1Ch 19:18 They might be dragoons, as we now call them; or there might be forty thousand of each sort. The Chronicles are therefore called Paralipomena, because they supply that which was wanting in the former books.
a Equites curules.