I. Kinas XI. 15.

15 For it came_to_pass, when David was in -Edom, and Joab the_captain_of the host was_gone_up to bury =slain, after he had_smitten every male in Edom;
16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israél, until he had_cut_ off every male in Edom :)
That Hadad fied, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
18 And they arose out_of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took «men with them out_of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king_of Egypt ; which gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
19 And Hadad found great favour in the_sight_of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to_wife -the_sister_of his own_wife, the_sister_of Tahpenes the queen.
20 And the-_sister.of Tahpenes bare him -Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Ge- nubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the_sons_of Pharaoh.
21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the_captain_of the host was_ dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, s“+Let_ me_depart, that I may_go to mine_own country.”
22 Then Pharaoh said unto him, “But what hast thon lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine_ own country?” And he answered, “Nothing: howbeit let-me_go in_any_
_| wise.”
23 And =God stirred him up another adversary, *“Rezon the_son_of Eliadah, which fied from his =lord -Hadadezer king_of Zobah :
24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain_over a band, when Dayid slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
25 And she was an adversary to Israél all the_days_of Solomon, beside -the mischief that Hadad did: and he ab- horred Israél, and reigned over Syria.
26 And j Jeroboam the_son_of Nebat, an Ephrathite of xZereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Ze- ruah, a widow woman, even he lifted_ up Ais hand against the king.
27 And this was the cause that he lifted_up his hand against the king: Solomon built *Millo, and repaired -the_breaches_of the_city_of David his father.
23 And the ‘man Jeroboam was a mighty_man_of valour: and Solomon seeing «the young_man that he » was industrious, he made him ruler over all the_? charge_of the_house_of Joseph.
29 And it came_to_pass at xthat xtime when Jeroboam went out_of Jerusalem, that the prophet « Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had_ clad_himself with a new garment; and they_two were alone in the field:
30 And Ahijah caught the new xgar- ment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces :
31 And he said to Jeroboam, “*Take
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