1 Kings 4:26

4:26 Solomon had 4,000 ¹  stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses.

Deuteronomy 17:16

17:16 Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ²  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

Deuteronomy 17:2

17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages ³  that the Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God ⁴  and breaks his covenant

Deuteronomy 1:14

1:14 You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.

Deuteronomy 9:25

Moses’ Plea on Behalf of the Lord’s Reputation

9:25 I lay flat on the ground before the Lord for forty days and nights, ⁵  for he ⁶  had said he would destroy you.

Isaiah 2:7

2:7 Their land is full of gold and silver;

there is no end to their wealth. ⁷ 

Their land is full of horses;

there is no end to their chariots. ⁸ 

¹ tn The Hebrew text has “40,000,” but this is probably an inflated number (nevertheless it is followed by KJV, ASV, NASB, NRSV, TEV, CEV). Some Greek mss of the OT and the parallel in 2 Chr 9:25 read “4,000” (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV, NLT).

² tn Heb “in order to multiply horses.” The translation uses “do so” in place of “multiply horses” to avoid redundancy (cf. NAB, NIV).

³ tn Heb “gates.”

⁴ tn Heb “does the evil in the eyes of the Lord your God.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew text includes “when I prostrated myself.” Since this is redundant, it has been left untranslated.

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

⁷ tn Or “treasuries”; KJV “treasures.”

⁸ sn Judah’s royal bureaucracy had accumulated great wealth and military might, in violation of Deut 17:16-17.