

18 They set out from Midian and went to Paran. 17 But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father. ( X) 16 Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom. 15 Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.

13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom from him, but will give him one tribe ( T) for the sake ( U) of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.” ( V) Solomon’s Adversariesġ4 Then the Lord raised up against Solomon an adversary, ( W) Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom. I will tear it out of the hand of your son.

12 Nevertheless, for the sake of David ( S) your father, I will not do it during your lifetime. ( P) 11 So the Lord said to Solomon, “Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, ( Q) which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear ( R) the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates. 10 Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, ( O) Solomon did not keep the Lord’s command. 8 He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.ĩ The Lord became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared ( N) to him twice. 6 So Solomon did evil ( J) in the eyes of the Lord he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.ħ On a hill east ( K) of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh ( L) the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek ( M) the detestable god of the Ammonites. 5 He followed Ashtoreth ( H) the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molek ( I) the detestable god of the Ammonites. ( E) 4 As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, ( F) and his heart was not fully devoted ( G) to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been. 3 He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines, ( D) and his wives led him astray. 2 They were from nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry ( C) with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love.

11 King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women ( A) besides Pharaoh’s daughter-Moabites, Ammonites, ( B) Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.
