1 Kings 4:26 Solomons Horses EXTENDED 1

What’s In Your Bible: 1 Kings 4:26 vs 2 Chronicles 9:25 How many Horse stalls did Solomon have?

Scholars, Atheists, Agnostics, and those who hate the Bible like to say there’s a contradiction between 1 Kings 4:26 and 2 Chronicles 9:25 and the scribes made a mistake. Did Solomon have 40,000 horses or 4000?

KJV: 1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots.

It is pretty straight forward, Solomon had forty thousand individual stalls of horses.

2 Chronicles 9:25 Says: And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots

I work with the Amish. Inside their barns, they have individual stalls for each horse. They also store their buggies in a larger area or stall.

In Kings, Solomon had 40,000 individual horse stalls.

In Chronicles, he had 4000 larger stalls that had chariots and horses.

Let’s assume there are 10 horses per chariot. If a horse was injured, killed, or tired, another would be ready to replace. Or if they need to give a team of horses a rest and switch them out mid-stream.

The chariot would be in the larger portion of the stall and then there would be 10 smaller horse stalls within the Larger Stall.

What do the new versions say?

NIV: Solomon had 4000 stalls for chariot horses, and 12,000 horses. Wrong on both numbers.

ESV: 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. Got it right!

NASV 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. Right again!

New World Translation: And Solomon had 4,000 stalls of horses for his chariots and 12,000 horses. Interestingly it wrongly matches the NIV.

The “official” Jehovah’s Witness web page has what I just read, but the published translations that I have in my library have it correct. So, you decide.

Dan Wallace’s NET Bible Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

New Living Translation

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses, and he had 12,000 horses.

Seems like the scholars couldn’t figure out the number difference and changed the numbers so that they would match. What else have they changed?

(2 Chronicles 9:25 is the same in all of the translations)

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