1 Kings 10 · a question people ask
Fourteen hundred chariots, and forty thousand stalls?
This chapter says, "He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen" (10:26), and 2 Chronicles gives the same numbers (2 Chronicles 1:14). Chapter 4 counted the stalls: "Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen" (4:26), where 2 Chronicles has "four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen" (2 Chronicles 9:25). The honest question in chapter 4 sets those two counts side by side. These notes quote the numbers as each verse gives them and don't try to make them agree. 10:26's "chariot cities" are the "cities for his chariots" of 9:19.
The verses
“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.”
“Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. He had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.”
“Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.”
“Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen that he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.”