20. Tahpenes’ sister had a son ⌊named⌋ Genubath. Tahpenes presented the boy to Pharaoh in the palace, and Genubath lived in the palace among Pharaoh’s children.
21. When Hadad heard in Egypt that David had lain down in death with his ancestors and that Joab, the commander of the army, had died, he said to Pharaoh, “Let me go to my own country.”
22. Pharaoh asked him, “What don’t you have here that makes you eager to go home?”“Nothing,” he said. “But let me leave anyway.”
23. God also raised up Rezon, son of Eliada, as a rival to Solomon. Rezon fled from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah,
24. after David killed the men of Zobah. Rezon gathered men and became the leader of a troop of warriors. They went to Damascus, settled there, and ruled a kingdom in Damascus.
25. In addition to the trouble that Hadad caused, Rezon was Israel’s rival as long as Solomon lived. He ruled Aram and despised Israel.
26. There was also Jer o boam, who was the son of Nebat and an Ephrathite from Zeredah. His mother Zeruah was a widow. He was one of Solomon’s officers, but he rebelled against the king.
27. This was the situation when he rebelled against the king: Solomon was building the Millo and repairing a break in the ⌊wall of⌋ the City of David.
28. Solomon saw that Jer o boam was a very able and hardworking man. So he put Jer o boam in charge of all forced labor from the tribes of Joseph.