9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses 1 and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 2
1 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
2 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”
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3 tn Heb “and stalls for all beasts and beasts, and flocks for the stalls.” The repetition of בְהֵמָה (bÿhemah, “beast”) here indicates various kinds of livestock.