11. and said to him, “Because you have deliberately broken your covenant with me and disobeyed my commands, I promise that I will take the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your officials.
12. However, for the sake of your father David I will not do this in your lifetime, but during the reign of your son.
13. And I will not take the whole kingdom away from him; instead, I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have made my own.”
14. So the Lord caused Hadad, of the royal family of Edom, to turn against Solomon.
15-16. Long before this, when David had conquered Edom, Joab the commander of his army had gone there to bury the dead. He and his men remained in Edom six months, and during that time they killed every male in Edom
17. except Hadad and some of his father's Edomite servants, who escaped to Egypt. (At that time Hadad was just a child.)