1 Kings 4:26 KJV — MannaFest

1 Kings 4:26

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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ASV

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

WEB

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

YLT

And Solomon hath forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

DBT

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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2 Chronicles 1:14
And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25
And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 17:16
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
1 Kings 10:26
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 8:4
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

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God had commanded that their king should not multiply horses ( Deut. xvii. 16 ), nor, according to the account here given, considering the extent and wealth of Solomon's kingdom, did he multiply horses in proportion to his neighbours; for we find even the Philistines bringing into the field 30,000 chariots ( 1 Sam. xiii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But it is not exactly the same Hebrew word which is here and there, though we translate both stalls; and therefore there may well be allowed some difference in the signification, the one signifying properly stables, of which there were four thousand, the other stalls or partitions for each horse, which were forty thousand.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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H657157× in canon H705136× in canon H5483140× in canon H8010291× in canon H6240338× in canon

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1KI 4:26PSA 20:7 ISA 31:1
1KI 4:26PSA 20:7 JER 17:5
1KI 4:26PSA 20:7 PRO 21:31
1KI 4:26PSA 20:7 PSA 33:16-17
1KI 4:26PSA 20:7 2CH 32:8
1KI 4:262CH 9:25 DEU 17:16
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
1KI 4:262CH 9:25 1KI 10:26
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1KI 4:262CH 1:14 1KI 10:26-29

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