Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Chronicles 9:25
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.
25. four thousand stalls for horses and chariots ] In the parallel passage (1Ki 4:26 = 2Ch 5:6 Heb.), forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots. The meaning of the word rendered “stalls” is quite uncertain. The rendering of the LXX. suggests “brood-mares” as the meaning.
twelve thousand horsemen ] So 1Ki 4:26 (2Ch 5:6 Heb.); and 2Ch 1:14 (= 1Ki 10:26).
chariot cities ] See note on 2Ch 1:14.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 25. Four thousand stalls for horses] 1Kg 4:26, where the different numbers in these two books are considered. The Targum, instead of four thousand, has arba meah, four hundred.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Four thousand stalls, to wit, greater stalls, in each of which were ten stalls, in all forty thousand stalls, as it is in 1Ki 4:26, See Poole “1Ki 4:26“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
25. Solomon had four thousandstallsIt has been conjectured [GESENIUS,Hebrew Lexicon] that the original term may signify not onlystall or stable, but a number of horses occupying the same number ofstalls. Supposing that ten were put together in one part, this wouldmake forty thousand. According to this theory of explanation, thehistorian in Kings refers to horses [see 1Ki10:26]; while the historian in Chronicles speaks of the stalls inwhich they were kept. But more recent critics reject this mode ofsolving the difficulty, and, regarding the four thousand stalls as inkeeping with the general magnificence of Solomon’s establishments,are agreed in considering the text in Kings as corrupt, through theerror of some copyist.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
[See comments on 1Ki 10:26].
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2Ch 9:25 does not correspond to the passage 1Ki 10:26, but in contents and language agrees with 1Ki 5:6, and 2Ch 9:26 with 1Ki 5:1. Only the general estimate of Solomon’s riches in gold and silver, in 2Ch 9:27, repeated from 2Ch 1:15, corresponds to 1Ki 10:27. Finally, in 2Ch 9:28 the whole description is rounded off; all that has already been said in 2Ch 1:16, 2Ch 1:17 as to the trade in horses with Egypt (1Ki 10:28-29) being drawn together into one general statement.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(25) And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.See 1Ki. 4:26 (where the number of stalls is erroneously stated at 40,000).
The remainder of the verse coincides with 1Ki. 10:26.
Having already given an account of Solomons chariots and horses, and his importation of the latter from Egypt, in 2Ch. 1:14-17, an account which is identical with 1Ki. 10:26-29, the chronicler naturally avoids mere repetition of that passage in 2Ch. 9:25-28.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ch 9:25 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.
Ver. 25. And Solomon had, &c. ] See 1Ki 10:26 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
four thousand. See note on 1Ki 4:26.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
2Ch 1:14, Deu 17:16, 1Ki 4:26, 1Ki 10:26
Reciprocal: 2Ch 9:28 – brought
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
9:25 And Solomon had {m} four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
(m) That is, ten horses in every stable, which in all amounts to 40,000 as in 1Ki 4:26.