And he shaved them—as it says in the book of Samuel, “and he shaved off one side of their beards” (2 Sam 10:4).

Madvehem (מדויהם). [This means]: their garments, of [the root attested in] middo (מדו) bad (=his linen garment; Lev 6:3).

Until the mifsa‘ah. This means the nakedness. It is of [the root attested in] efse‘ah bah (=I will stomp on it; Isa 27:4). The text also invokes legs [themselves] as a euphemism for nakedness: “He had not cleaned up his legs” (2 Sam 19:25). In the parallel verse in Samuel [it says], “until their foundations (shetotehem)” (2 Sam 10:4), which is also a euphemism for nakedness.

And the whole army, the professional fighters. This means: the army and the professional fighters.

Seven thousand charioteers and forty thousand footmen. But in the book of Samuel [it says], “seven hundred charioteers and forty thousand horsemen” (2 Sam 10:18)! When it says in the book of Samuel “seven hundred charioteers,” it means to say seven hundred elite charioteers, and it does not count the rest of them. But in this book it counts all the charioteers, who totaled seven thousand. And there it provides a number for the horsemen—who totaled forty thousand—but not for the footmen, whereas here it does so for the footmen but not for the horsemen.