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Royal stables with rows of horses and workers delivering barley and straw. Use the exact source quantity in Scripture, no invented labels or literal claim of countable thousands.
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1 Kings 5:6-8

Horses and supplies

Wisdom and Preparations for the Temple · 1 Kings 5

Story guide: Rows of horses and workers carrying barley and straw show the supply system behind Solomon's chariot forces; the passage's thousands of stalls and horsemen cannot be literally counted here.

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6And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

7These deputies provided for King Solomon and for all who came near the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they lacked nothing.

8And the barley and the straw for the horses and the steeds were brought to the place where each man was, according to his duty.

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