1 Kings 10:26

And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen By reason, as Josephus tells us, of the great number of horses which were brought to him in these yearly offerings. The word פרשׁ (parash) here rendered -horsemen" means both the horse for riding and the rider. Just as we speak of so many hundred -horse". סוס (sus) on the other hand was the draught horse.

Here we find the first institution of cavalry in Israel in defiance of the Deuteronomic law. If this book was compiled after Deuteronomy was written we should expect some reference to this violation. There is such a reference about another matter in 1 Kings 11:2.

a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen The LXX. gives for the first clause -four thousand mares for his chariots," which agrees as far as the number is concerned with 2 Chronicles 9:25, -four thousand stalls for horses and chariots": though in 2 Chronicles 1:14 we have precisely the same number both of chariots and horsemen specified as is given here.

at Jerusalem After this the LXX. adds -and he was chief over all the kings from the River even unto the land of the Philistines and to the borders of Egypt."