9:25 Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses 2 and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem. 3
1 tn Heb “and stalls for all beasts and beasts, and flocks for the stalls.” The repetition of בְהֵמָה (bÿhemah, “beast”) here indicates various kinds of livestock.
2 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:26 reads “fourteen hundred chariots.”
3 tn Heb “he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.”