1. BUT KING Solomon [defiantly] loved many foreign women–the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
2. They were of the very nations of whom the Lord said to the Israelites, You shall not mingle with them, neither shall they mingle with you, for surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods. Yet Solomon clung to these in love. [Deut. 17:17.]
3. He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines, and his wives turned away his heart from God.
4. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect (complete and whole) with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
5. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abominable idol of the Ammonites! [I Kings 9:6-9.]
6. Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as David his father did.
7. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abominable idol of Moab, on the hill opposite Jerusalem, and for Molech the abominable idol of the Ammonites.
8. And he did so for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord, the God of Israel, Who had appeared to him twice,
10. And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods, but he did not do what the Lord commanded.
11. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, Because you are doing this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely rend the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant!
12. However, in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake. But I will rend it out of the hand of your son!
13. However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but will give one tribe to your son for David My servant's sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.
14. The Lord stirred up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of royal descent in Edom.
15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of Israel's army went up to bury the slain, he slew every male in Edom.
16. For Joab and all Israel remained there for six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom.
17. But Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants, to Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
18. They set out from Midian and came to Paran, and took men with them out of Paran and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave [young] Hadad a house and land and ordered provisions for him.
19. Hadad found great favor with Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife Tahpenes the queen.
20. The sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.