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1 Kings 11:16-18
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1 Kings 11:16-18
New English Translation
16 For Joab and the entire Israelite army[a] stayed there six months until they had exterminated every male in Edom.[b] 17 Hadad,[c] who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.[d] 18 They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, gave him a house and some land and supplied him with food.[e]
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- 1 Kings 11:16 tn Heb “and all Israel.”
- 1 Kings 11:16 tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”
- 1 Kings 11:17 tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.
- 1 Kings 11:17 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.”
- 1 Kings 11:18 tn Heb “and they arose from Midian and went to Paran and they took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt to Pharaoh king of Egypt and he gave to him a house and food he said to him, and a land he gave to him.”
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