1 Reyes 4:26

26 Tenía además de esto Salomón cuarenta mil caballos en sus caballerizas para sus carros, y doce mil caballos de cabalgar

1 Reyes 4:26 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 4:26

And Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses
In ( 2 Chronicles 9:25 ) ; it is only four thousand; and therefore some think that here is a mistake of the copier, of "arbaim", forty, for "arbah", four; which it is thought might be through divine permission, in such lesser matters, without any prejudice to the authority of the Scriptures in matters of faith and practice; but without supposing this, a reconciliation may be made, by observing, that here the writer, as Ben Gersom notes, gives the number of the horses that were in the stables, which were forty thousand, there the stables themselves, which were four thousand, ten horses in a stable; or here he numbers the stalls, which were forty thousand, and there the stables, which were four thousand, there being ten stalls in each; and the word there has the letter "yod" in it more than here, which is the numerical letter for "ten", and may point thereunto; or here the writer speaks of all the stalls for horses Solomon had throughout the kingdom, there of those only he had in Jerusalem. Benjamin of Tudela ^F7 affirms, that these stalls, or stables, which Solomon built very strong of large stones, are still in being in Jerusalem, and that there is no building to be seen like it any where; but no other writer speaks of them; nor is it at all probable that they should remain:

for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen;
some of the said stalls of horses were for his chariots, to draw in them for various uses, of which had 1400, ( 1 Kings 10:26 ) ; and others to mount twelve thousand horsemen, who were placed in various parts, to defend kingdom.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Itinerar. p. 43.

1 Reyes 4:26 In-Context

24 Porque él señoreaba en toda la región que estaba al otro lado del río y desde Tifsa hasta Gaza, sobre todos los reyes del otro lado del río; y tuvo paz por todos lados en derredor suyo

25 Y Judá e Israel vivían seguros, cada uno debajo de su vid y debajo de su higuera, desde Dan hasta Beerseba, todos los días de Salomón

26 Tenía además de esto Salomón cuarenta mil caballos en sus caballerizas para sus carros, y doce mil caballos de cabalgar

27 Y estos gobernadores mantenían al rey Salomón, y a todos los que a la mesa del rey Salomón venían, cada uno su mes; y hacían que nada faltara

28 Y traían también cebada y paja para los caballos, y para las bestias de carga, al lugar donde él estaba, cada uno conforme al cargo que tenía