¹³So Solomon came from his journey[¹] to the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, unto Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
[¹] The Septuagint and Vulgate have, came from the high place.
13. from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon] This clause yields no sense in the Hebrew and is probably a misplaced gloss. Read simply, Then Solomon came to Jerusalem (compare 1 Kings iii. 15), or, as margin following LXX., came from the high place....
14–17 (= 1 Kings x. 26–29).
Solomon’s Horses and Chariots.
¹⁴And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
14. a thousand and four hundred chariots] See note on ix. 25.
the chariot cities] The greater part of Palestine is unsuitable for the evolutions of chariots, but flat country is found along the coast of the Mediterranean, in the plain of Esdraelon, and east of Jordan, and in these three districts the chariot cities were probably situated. Compare G. A. Smith, Historical Geography of the Holy Land, p. 667, Appendix v.
¹⁵And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
15. to be in Jerusalem as stones] In Kings this is asserted of silver only. Jerusalem is one of the stoniest places in the world. See Kelman, Holy Land, pp. 9–11.
the sycomore trees] See 1 Chronicles xxvii. 28, note.