1 Kings 11:15
13 Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
14 Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.
16 Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months, until he had killed every male in Edom.
17 But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.
- KJV
- 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;
- WEB
- For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
- ASV
- For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom
- DARBY
- Now it came to pass when David was in Edom, when Joab the captain of the host had gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom
- BLB
- And it came to pass in David being in Edom, in the going up of Joab the commander of the army to bury the slain, that he had struck down every male in Edom—
- ÅB
- For dengang David var i Edom, og hærføreren Joab dro opp for å begrave de falne og slo ihjel alle menn i Edom.
- OTB
- For da David var i Edom, og Joab, hærføreren, hadde dratt opp for å begrave de falne, slo han ned alle menn i Edom.
- B1930
- For dengang David var i Edom, og hærføreren Joab drog op for å begrave de falne og slo ihjel alle menn i Edom.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Samuel 8:14
He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.
Read in context1 Chronicles 18:12–13
Moreover, Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 20:13
When the LORD your God has delivered it into your hand, you must put every male to the sword.
Read in contextNumbers 24:18–19
Edom will become a possession, as will Seir, his enemy; but Israel will perform with valor.
Read in contextPsalms 108:10
Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
Read in contextGenesis 25:23
and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Read in contextPsalms 60:1
You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!
Read in contextNumbers 31:17
So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man,
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