9. The Lord grew angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from being with the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
10. The Lord had commanded Solomon about this very thing, that he shouldn’t follow other gods. But Solomon didn’t do what the Lord commanded.
11. The Lord said to Solomon, "Because you have done all this instead of keeping my covenant and my laws that I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
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.
18. They set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and came to Egypt and to Pharaoh its king. Pharaoh assigned him a home, food, and land.
19. Pharaoh was so delighted with Hadad that he gave him one of his wife’s sisters for marriage, a sister of Queen Tahpenes.
20. This sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son, Genubath. Tahpenes weaned him in Pharaoh’s house. So it was that Genubath was raised in Pharaoh’s house, among Pharaoh’s children.
21. While in Egypt, Hadad heard that David had lain down with his ancestors and that Joab the general was also dead. Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me go to my homeland."
22. Pharaoh said to him, "What do you lack here with me that would make you want to go back to your homeland?"Hadad said, "Nothing, but please let me go!"
23. God raised up another opponent for Solomon: Rezon, Eliada’s son, who had escaped from Zobah’s King Hadadezer.
24. Rezon recruited men and became leader of a band when David was killing them. They went to Damascus, stayed there, and ruled it.
25. Throughout Solomon’s lifetime, Rezon was Israel’s opponent and added to the problems caused by Hadad. Rezon hated Israel while he ruled as king of Aram.
26. Now Nebat’s son Jeroboam was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His mother’s name was Zeruah; she was a widow. Although he was one of Solomon’s own officials, Jeroboam fought against the king.
27. This is the story of why Jeroboam fought against the king:Solomon had built the stepped structure and repaired the broken wall in his father David’s City.
28. Now Jeroboam was a strong and honorable man. Solomon saw how well this youth did his work. So he appointed him over all the work gang of Joseph’s house.