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1 Kings 11:15
“For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom”
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
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However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
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Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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For it happened, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
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(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, 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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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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