1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad, ¹  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ² 

1 Kings 11:21

11:21 While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away ³  and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, “Give me permission to leave ⁴  so I can return to my homeland.”

¹ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

² tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”

³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

⁴ tn Heb “send me away.”