Lexham English Bible

1 Kings 11:11-16 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

11. So Yahweh said to Solomon, “Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.

12. However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it away.

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

14. Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom.

15. It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom.

16. For Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months until he exterminated every male in Edom.