World English Bible
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”
1 Kings 11:15 in the King James Version
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;Read 1 Kings 11:15 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
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.
Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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
(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
Cross references for 1 Kings 11:15
- 2 Samuel 8:14
He put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
- 1 Chronicles 18:12-13
Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand. He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
- Deuteronomy 20:13
and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:
- Psalms 60:1
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
- Genesis 25:23
Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.
- Genesis 27:40
By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.
- Numbers 31:17
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
- Malachi 1:2-3
I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob; but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wildern...
- Numbers 24:18-19
Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly. Out of Jacob shall one have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant from the city.
- Psalms 108:10
Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
Cross references from OpenBible.info
Places in this verse
About 1 Kings
Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
Explore all chapters of 1 Kings →