011:008 So did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and
sacrificed to their gods.
011:009 Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away
from Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
011:010 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
after other gods: but he didn't keep that which Yahweh commanded.
011:011 Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you,
and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you,
and will give it to your servant.
011:012 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David
your father's sake: but I will tear it out of the hand
of your son.
011:013 However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will
give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake,
and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
011:014 Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite:
he was of the king's seed in Edom.
011:015 For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain
of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck
every male in Edom
011:016 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had
cut off every male in Edom);
011:017 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants
with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
011:018 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh
king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food,
and gave him land.
011:019 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that
he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister
of Tahpenes the queen.
011:020 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's
house among the sons of Pharaoh.
011:021 When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers,
and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said
to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
011:022 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me,
that behold, you seek to go to your own country?
He answered, Nothing: however only let me depart.
011:023 God raised up [another] adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada,
who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
011:024 He gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop,
when David killed them [of Zobah]: and they went to Damascus,
and lived therein, and reigned in Damascus.
011:025 He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel,
and reigned over Syria.
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