11. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and have not kept My covenant and statutes, which I commanded you, I will surely take the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
12. I will not do this in your lifetime for your father David’s sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
13. However, I will not take the whole kingdom away, but will preserve one tribe for your son for David My servant’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem which I chose.”
14. The Lord stirred up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was a prince of Edom.
15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the slain, he had killed every male in Edom
16. (for six months Joab stayed there with his men until he had killed every male in Edom).
17. But Hadad fled to Egypt, he and some Edomites who served his father, Hadad still being a small child.
18. They set out from Midian and went to Paran, and they gathered men from Paran and then arrived in Egypt and presented him before Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and provisions and land.
19. Pharaoh had great affection for Hadad, so much so that he gave him his sister-in-law, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as a wife.
20. Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. Genubath lived in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.