Holman Christian Standard Bible

1 Kings 11:12-18 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

12. However, I will not do it during your lifetime because of your father David; I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

13. Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son because of my servant David and because of Jerusalem that I chose.”

14. So the Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

15. Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

16. For Joab and all Israel had remained there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

17. Hadad fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites from his father’s servants. At the time Hadad was a small boy.

18. Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.