Holier Than Thou - Biblical Contradictions

How many stalls for chariot horses did Solomon have -- 40,000 or 4,000?

1 Kings 4:26, "Solomon had forty thousand stalls for chariot horses, and twelve thousand horses."

2 Chronicles 9:25, "Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses..."

According to 1 Kings chapter 4, Solomon had forty thousand stalls for chariot horses and twelve thousand horses, however, according to the same account in 2 Chronicles chapter 9, he had only 4,000 stalls.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)