English Standard Version

1 Kings 11:12-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

12. Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

13. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen.”

14. And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.

15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom

16. (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom).

17. But Hadad fled to Egypt, together with certain Edomites of his father’s servants, Hadad still being a little child.