brought `Moses,' says Bp. Warburton, `had expressly prohibited the mul- tiplying of horses, (De

2 Chronicles 17:16 And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to the LORD...

;) by which the future king was forbidden to establish a body of calvary, because this could not be effected without sending into Egypt, with which people God had forbidden any communication, as this would be dangerous to religion. When Solomon had violated this law, and multiplied horses to excess, (

1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

,) it was soon attended with those fatal consequences that the law foretold: for this wisest of kings having likewise, in violation of {another} law, married Pharaoh's daughter, (the early fruits of this commerce,) and then, by a repetition of the same crime, but a transgression of another law, had espoused more strange women, (

1 Kings 4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

;

1 Kings 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians...

,) they first,in defiance of a {fourth} law, persuaded him to build them idol temples for {their use}; and afterwards, against a {fifth} law, brought him to erect other temples for {his own.}'

2 Chronicles 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities...

2 Chronicles 1:16 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

1 Kings 10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

Isaiah 2:7,8 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses...

Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen...