Scripture · Old Testament
1 Kings 4:26
1 Kings 4:26 is verse 26 of 1 Kings chapter 4, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
Some LXX manuscripts (see also 2 Chronicles 9:25); Hebrew 40,000
Or horsemen or charioteers
King James Version
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
World English Bible
Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
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1 Kings 4:24–28 · Berean Standard Bible
24 For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates —over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.
25 Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
26 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.
27 Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking.
28 Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 10:25Year after year, each visitor would bring his tribute: articles of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.
1 Kings 10:26Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Deuteronomy 17:16But the king must not acquire many horses for himself or send the people back to Egypt to acquire more horses, for the LORD has said, ‘You are never to go back that way again.’
2 Samuel 8:4David captured from him a thousand chariots, seven thousand charioteers, and twenty thousand foot soldiers, and he hamstrung all the horses except a hundred he kept for the chariots.
2 Chronicles 1:14Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.