Chariots

Chariots

Carriages for travelling, &c - Ge 46:29

Carriages used in war - 1Ki 20:25

Wheels of, described - 1Ki 7:33

Bound with traces - Mic 1:13

DRAWN BY

• Horses
- 2Ki 10:2; So 1:9
• Asses and camels
- Isa 21:7

Value of in Solomon's time - 1Ki 10:29

Drivers generally employed for - 1Ki 22:34; 2Ch 18:33

Sometimes driven by the owners - 2Ki 9:16,20

Sometimes driven furiously - 2Ki 9:20; Isa 5:28; Jer 4:13

Bounding motion of, referred to - Na 3:2

Noise occasioned by, referred to - 2Ki 7:6; Joe 2:5; Na 3:2; Re 9:9

Introduced into Israel by David - 2Sa 8:4

Multiplied by Solomon - 1Ki 10:26

Imported from Egypt - 1Ki 10:28,29

FOR WAR

• Armed with iron
- Jos 17:16; Jud 1:19
• Lighted by night with torches
- Na 2:3
• Commanded by captains
- Ex 14:7; 1Ki 16:9
• Advantageously manoeuvred in a flat country
- Jud 1:19; 1Ki 20:23-25
• Formed part of the line of battle
- 1Ki 20:25
• Used in pursuing enemies
- Ex 14:9; 2Sa 1:6
• Kept in chariot cities
- 1Ki 9:19; 10:26

USED IN WAR BY THE

• Egyptians
- Ex 14:7; 2Ki 18:24
• Canaanites
- Jos 17:16; Jud 4:3
• Philistines
- 1Sa 13:5
• Syrians
- 2Sa 10:18; 1Ki 20:1
• Assyrians
- 2Ki 19:23
• Ethiopians
- 2Ch 14:9; 16:8
• Babylonians
- Eze 23:23; 26:7
• Jews
- 2Ki 8:21; 10:2

Kings rode in, to battle - 1Ki 22:35

Kings used, in common - 1Ki 12:18; 18:44

Persons of distinction used - Ge 41:43; 2Ki 5:9,21; Jer 17:25; Ac 8:28

Often attended by running footmen - 1Sa 8:11; 2Sa 15:1; 1Ki 1:5

Consecrated to the sun - 2Ki 23:11

THE JEWS CONDEMNED FOR

• Multiplying
- Isa 2:7
• Trusting to
- Isa 22:18; 31:1
• Taken in war, often destroyed
- Jos 11:6,9; Jer 51:21; Mic 5:10; Na 2:13

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• The clouds
- Ps 104:3
• The judgments of God
- Isa 66:15
• Angels
- 2Ki 6:16,17; Ps 68:17
• Prophets
- 2Ki 2:12; 13:14
• Christ's love to his church
- So 6:12

Elijah taken to heaven in one of fire - 2Ki 2:11