12. Even so, on account of your father David, I won’t do it during your lifetime. I will tear the kingdom out of your son’s hands.
13. Moreover, I won’t tear away the entire kingdom. I will give one tribe to your son on account of my servant David and on account of Jerusalem, which I have chosen."
14. So the Lord raised up an opponent for Solomon: Hadad the Edomite from the royal line of Edom.
15. When David was fighting against Edom, Joab the general had gone up to bury the Israelite dead, and he had killed every male in Edom.
16. Joab and all the Israelites stayed there six months, until he had finished off every male in Edom.
17. While still a youth, Hadad escaped to Egypt along with his father’s Edomite officials.