4. It happened at the time of Solomon’s old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father had been.
5. Solomon went after Ashtoreth the god of the Sidonians and after Molech the abhorrence of the Ammonites.
6. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully follow after Yahweh as David his father.
7. At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which faces Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites.
8. Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods.
9. Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice.
10. And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.
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.
17. But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad was a young boy.
18. They had set out from Midian until they came to Paran where they took men from Paran with them and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave to him a house and assigned food for him and gave him land.
19. Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and he gave him the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as wife.
20. The sister of Tahpenes bore Genubath his son for him, and Tahpenes weaned him in the middle of the house of Pharaoh. Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the children of Pharaoh.