Chariots

Chariots

• Carriages for travelling, &c
  Genesis 46:29

• Carriages used in war
  1 Kings 20:25

• Wheels of, described
  1 Kings 7:33

• Bound with traces
  Micah 1:13

• DRAWN BY
  • Horses
    2 Kings 10:2 ; Solomon 1:9
  • Asses and camels
    Isaiah 21:7

• Value of in Solomons time
  1 Kings 10:29

• Drivers generally employed for
  1 Kings 22:34 ; 2 Chronicles 18:33

• Sometimes driven by the owners
  2 Kings 9:16 2 Kings 9:20

• Sometimes driven furiously
  2 Kings 9:20 ; Isaiah 5:28 ; Jeremiah 4:13

• Bounding motion of, referred to
  Nahum 3:2

• Noise occasioned by, referred to
  2 Kings 7:6 ; Joel 2:5 ; Nahum 3:2 ; Revelation 9:9

• Introduced into Israel by David
  2 Samuel 8:4

• Multiplied by Solomon
  1 Kings 10:26

• Imported from Egypt
  1 Kings 10:28 1 Kings 10:29

• FOR WAR
  • Armed with iron
    Joshua 17:16 ; Judges 1:19
  • Lighted by night with torches
    Nahum 2:3
  • Commanded by captains
    Exodus 14:7 ; 1 Kings 16:9
  • Advantageously manoeuvred in a flat country
    Judges 1:19 ; 1 Kings 20:23-25
  • Formed part of the line of battle
    1 Kings 20:25
  • Used in pursuing enemies
    Exodus 14:9 ; 2 Samuel 1:6
  • Kept in chariot cities
    1 Kings 9:19 ; 10:26

• USED IN WAR BY THE
  • Egyptians
    Exodus 14:7 ; 2 Kings 18:24
  • Canaanites
    Joshua 17:16 ; Judges 4:3
  • Philistines
    1 Samuel 13:5
  • Syrians
    2 Samuel 10:18 ; 1 Kings 20:1
  • Assyrians
    2 Kings 19:23
  • Ethiopians
    2 Chronicles 14:9 ; 16:8
  • Babylonians
    Ezekiel 23:23 ; 26:7
  • Jews
    2 Kings 8:21 ; 10:2

• Kings rode in, to battle
  1 Kings 22:35

• Kings used, in common
  1 Kings 12:18 ; 18:44

• Persons of distinction used
  Genesis 41:43 ; 2 Kings 5:9 2 Kings 5:21 ; Jeremiah 17:25 ; Acts 8:28

• Often attended by running footmen
  1 Samuel 8:11 ; 2 Samuel 15:1 ; 1 Kings 1:5

• Consecrated to the sun
  2 Kings 23:11

• THE JEWS CONDEMNED FOR
  • Multiplying
    Isaiah 2:7
  • Trusting to
    Isaiah 22:18 ; 31:1
  • Taken in war, often destroyed
    Joshua 11:6 Joshua 11:9 ; Jeremiah 51:21 ; Micah 5:10 ; Nahum 2:13

• ILLUSTRATIVE OF
  • The clouds
    Psalms 104:3
  • The judgments of God
    Isaiah 66:15
  • Angels
    2 Kings 6:16 2 Kings 6:17 ; Psalms 68:17
  • Prophets
    2 Kings 2:12 ; 13:14
  • Christs love to his church
    Solomon 6:12

• Elijah taken to heaven in one of fire
  2 Kings 2:11

[J] indicates this entry was also found in Jack Van Impe's Prophecy Dictionary

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Bibliography Information

Torrey, R.A., Reverand. "Entry for 'Chariots'". "The New Topical Text Book". . 1897.