The Bible Exposed

Contradictions (d): 2 Chronicles 9:25

Passage 2 Chronicles 9:25

Solomon’s stalls for horses number 4,000 in 2 Chronicles 9:25 but 40,000 in 1 Kings 4:26, a tenfold gap between two accounts of the same king.

And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 9:25

Solomon also had 40,000 stalls of horses for his chariots, and 12,000 horsemen.

1 Kings 4:26

Source: see Credits and references (no. 8, p. 7).