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1 Kings 5:6
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1 Kings 5:6
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Solomon’s Riches: Chariots and Horses. 6 (A)Solomon had forty thousand stalls for horses for chariots and twelve thousand horsemen.
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1 Kings 5:6
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1 Kings 5:6
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6 “So give orders that cedars(A) of Lebanon be cut for me. My men will work with yours, and I will pay you for your men whatever wages you set. You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.”
Deuteronomy 17:16
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Deuteronomy 17:16
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16 [a]But he shall not have a great number of horses; nor shall he make his people go back again to Egypt to acquire many horses, for the Lord said to you, Do not go back that way again.(A)
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- 17:16–17 This restriction on royal acquisitions may have in mind the excesses of Solomon’s reign mentioned in 1 Kgs 10:1–11:6. Horses: chariotry for war. Egypt engaged in horse trading, and the danger envisioned here is that some king might make Israel a vassal of Egypt for military aid.
2 Chronicles 1:14
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2 Chronicles 1:14
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14 Solomon amassed chariots and horses: he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses; these he allocated among the chariot cities and to the king’s service in Jerusalem.(A)
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2 Chronicles 1:14
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2 Chronicles 1:14
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14 Solomon accumulated chariots(A) and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses,[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 1:14 Or charioteers
2 Chronicles 9:25
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2 Chronicles 9:25
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25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses, chariots, and twelve thousand horses; these he allocated among the chariot cities and to the king’s service in Jerusalem.
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2 Chronicles 9:25
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2 Chronicles 9:25
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25 Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,(A) and twelve thousand horses,[a] which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:25 Or charioteers
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