OLD TESTAMENT

1 Kings 10:26

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Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. He kept them in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

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Verse 26. Hunderd chariots. Par. forty thousand horses, in the stables, and 12,000 chariots and horsemen; though the chariots may be referred to the former number, conformably to the Hebrew and to Calmet. 4:26. Menochius.—Many of the horses were not employed in the chariots, (Salien) which were 1400 in number. 2 Chronicles 1:14. Menochius.

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