1 Kings 11:4-20

4In his old age, his wives tempted him to follow other gods. He was no longer committed to the Lord his God as his father David had been.

5Solomon followed Astarte (the goddess of the Sidonians) and Milcom (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).

6So Solomon did what the Lord considered evil. He did not wholeheartedly follow the Lord as his father David had done.

7Then Solomon built an illegal worship site on the hill east of Jerusalem for Chemosh (the disgusting idol of Moab) and for Molech (the disgusting idol of the Ammonites).

8He did these things for each of his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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

10God had given him commands about this. ⌞He told him⌟ not to follow other gods. But Solomon did not obey God’s command.

11The Lord told Solomon, “Because this is your attitude and you have no respect for my promises  or my laws that I commanded you to keep, I will certainly tear the kingdom away from you. I will give it to one of your servants.

12But I will not do it in your lifetime because of your father David. I will tear it away from the hands of your son.

13However, I will not tear the whole kingdom away from you. I will give your son one tribe for my servant David’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, ⌞the city⌟ that I chose.”

14The Lord raised up Hadad the Edomite as a rival to Solomon. Hadad was from the Edomite royal family.

15When David had conquered Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, went to bury those killed in battle and killed every male in Edom.

16(Joab and all Israel stayed there six months until they had destroyed every male in Edom.)

17Hadad was a young boy at the time. He and some of his father’s Edomite servants fled to Egypt.

18They left Midian and went to Paran. Taking some men from Paran with them, they went to Pharaoh (the king of Egypt). Pharaoh gave Hadad a home, a food allowance, and land.

19Pharaoh approved of Hadad. So he gave Hadad his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to be Hadad’s wife.

20Tahpenes’ 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.