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Solomon’s Wealth

14 Solomon accumulated[a] chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses . He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.[b]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 1:14 tn Or “gathered.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 1:14 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”

and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him,[a] and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept.[b] He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.[c]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 8:6 tn Heb “Solomon.” The recurrence of the proper name is unexpected in terms of contemporary English style, so the pronoun has been used in the translation instead.
  2. 2 Chronicles 8:6 tn Heb “the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horses.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 8:6 tn Heb “and all the desire of Solomon which he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his kingdom.”

25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses[a] and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and also with him in Jerusalem.[b]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 9:25 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 9:25 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”