6. Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he did not follow the Lord unreservedly as David his father had done.
7. Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and to Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain opposite Jerusalem.
8. He did the same for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9. The Lord became angry with Solomon, because his heart turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
10. and commanded him not to do this very thing, not to follow other gods. But he did not observe what the Lord commanded.
11. So the Lord said to Solomon: Since this is what you want, and you have not kept my covenant and the statutes which I enjoined on you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
12. But I will not do this during your lifetime, for the sake of David your father; I will tear it away from your son’s hand.
13. Nor will I tear away the whole kingdom. I will give your son one tribe for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.
14. The Lord then raised up an adversary against Solomon: Hadad the Edomite, who was of the royal line in Edom.
15. Earlier, when David had conquered Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while going to bury the slain, killed every male in Edom.
16. Joab and all Israel remained there six months until they had killed off every male in Edom.
17. But Hadad, with some Edomite servants of his father, fled toward Egypt. Hadad was then a young boy.
18. They left Midian and came to Paran; they gathered men from Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he gave Hadad a house, appointed him rations, and assigned him land.
19. Hadad won great favor with Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
20. Tahpenes’ sister bore Hadad a son, Genubath. Tahpenes weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace. And Genubath lived in Pharaoh’s house, with Pharaoh’s own sons.
21. When Hadad in Egypt heard that David rested with his ancestors and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Give me leave to return to my own land.”
22. Pharaoh said to him, “What do you lack with me, that you are seeking to return to your own land?” He answered, “Nothing, but please let me go!”