Jehoram crossed over to Zair with his officers and all his chariots. The Edomites, who had surrounded him, attacked at night and defeated him and his chariot officers.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon accumulated<n id="1" /> chariots and horses. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

Solomon did not assign Israelites to these work crews;<n id="1" /> the Israelites served as his soldiers, officers, charioteers, and commanders of his chariot forces.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses<n id="1" /> and 12,000 horses. He kept them in assigned cities and in Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

He had 1,200 chariots, 60,000 horsemen, and an innumerable number of soldiers who accompanied him from Egypt, including Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites.

Did not the Cushites and Libyans have a huge army with chariots and a very large number of horsemen? But when you relied on the <sc>Lordsc>, he handed them over to you!

and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him,<n id="1" /> and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept.<n id="2" /> He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem,<n id="3" /> Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.<n id="4" />p>

Now the king of Syria had ordered his chariot commanders, &#8220;Do not fight common soldiers or high ranking officers;<n id="1" /> fight only the king of Israel!&#8221;

When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, &#8220;He must be the king of Israel!&#8221; So they turned and attacked him, but Jehoshaphat cried out. The <sc>Lordsc> helped him; God lured them away from him.

So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors;<n id="2" /> all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.