Text: 2 Chronicles 9:25-28
OT Text Referred to: 1 Kings 10:26-29
Subject: Solomon's international horse trade (* see Abrahamic covenant network)
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Both texts detail Solomon's chariot and horse trade with Egypt and Kue, recording 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots and 12,000 horsemen (2 Chr 9:25; cf. 1 Kgs 10:26's 1,400 chariots). The numerical differences between the accounts may reflect different counting methods or textual transmission. Both note that Solomon "made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the Shephelah." The Chronicler presents this military-commercial apparatus as evidence of the Abrahamic-Davidic blessing, though 1 Kings' broader narrative context hints at tension with Deuteronomy 17:16's warning against the king multiplying horses from Egypt.