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Read Full Chapter (1 Kings 11) 1 Kings 11:16 KJV
"(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)"
1 Kings Chapter 11, Verse 16
1 Kings 11:16 in Context (Verses 13–19 KJV)
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Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.
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¶ And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.
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For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
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(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
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That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
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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 an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
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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.