1 Kings 11:14

11:14 The Lord brought ¹  against Solomon an enemy, Hadad the Edomite, a descendant of the Edomite king.

1 Kings 11:1

The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry

11:1 King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

1 Kings 11:17

11:17 Hadad, ²  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ³ 

[11:14]  ¹ tn Or “raised up.”

[11:17]  ² tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

[11:17]  ³ 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.”