And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
Ver. 26. Forty thousand stalls of horses.] In his four thousand stables, 2Ch 9:25 each of which had ten stalls or partitions, for ten horses at least. And this might be a piece of that yoke the people groaned under: which they ought not to have done, living in such a golden age.