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1 Kings 11:16
“(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);”
1 Kings 11:16 in the King James Version
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)Read 1 Kings 11:16 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — 1 Kings 11
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Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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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
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(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
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that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
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They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.
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Solomon’s reign, the temple’s construction, and the kingdom’s division.
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