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Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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A Question of Numbers
Commentators note a discrepancy between the 40,000 stalls mentioned here and the 4,000 cited in 2 Chronicles 9:25. Most scholars, like Barnes and Ellicott, suggest the number in 1 Kings is a scribal error, as 4,000 horses is a more logical number for Solomon's 1,400 chariots. Others, like Gill, attempt to harmonize the texts, suggesting one counts stalls and the other stables.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In 2 Chronicles 9:25, the number of stalls for Solomon’s chariot horses is stated as 4,000, not 40,000. The number in the present passa…
19th Century
Anglican
Forty thousand. —By comparison with the parallel passage in 2 Chronicles 9:25, and with the notice in [Reference 1 Kin…
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Reformed Baptist
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses In (2 Chronicles 9:25) ; it is only four thousand; and …
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