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How many stalls did Solomon have?
The inventories agree on twelve thousand horsemen but differ tenfold in the number of stalls.
- Textual conflict
- Direct contradiction
- The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.
- Importance
- Incidental
- A small detail with little effect on the wider account.
Corresponding royal inventories disagree tenfold on stalls while preserving the identical horseman total.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Solomon has forty thousand stalls for chariot horses
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1 Kings 4:26
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:1 Kings 4
Solomon has four thousand stalls for horses and chariots
And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 9:25
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:2 Chronicles 9