How many officers did Solomon have?

Textual conflict

Direct contradiction

The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.

Importance

Minor

A local detail in a story, chronology, or inventory.

Corresponding chief supervisory groups receive explicit totals of 550 and 250 without a stated difference in scope.

An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.