1 Kings 11:14-16

New American Standard Bible 1995

God Raises Adversaries

¹⁴ Then the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the ^[a]royal line in Edom. ¹⁵ For it came about, ^(A)when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had ^(B)struck down every male in Edom ¹⁶ (for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),