1 Kings 11:4-20

4When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

5Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites.

6Solomon did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and unlike his father David, he did not remain loyal to the Lord.

7At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abhorrent idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.

8He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.

9The Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.

10He had commanded him about this, so that he would not follow other gods, but Solomon did not do what the Lord had commanded.

11Then the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep my covenant and my statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

12However, I will not do it during your lifetime for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of your son’s hand.

13Yet I will not tear the entire kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem that I chose.”

14So the Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite as an enemy against Solomon. He was of the royal family in Edom.

15Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

16For Joab and all Israel had remained there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.

17Hadad fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites from his father’s servants. At the time Hadad was a small boy.

18Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.

19Pharaoh liked Hadad so much that he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes.

20Tahpenes’s sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.