5. Solomon also worshipped Astarte the goddess of Sidon, and Milcom the disgusting god of Ammon.
6. Solomon's father had obeyed the Lord with all his heart, but Solomon disobeyed and did what the Lord hated.
7. Solomon built shrines on a hill east of Jerusalem to worship Chemosh the disgusting god of Moab, and Molech the disgusting god of Ammon.
8. In fact, he built a shrine for each of his foreign wives, so all of them could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.
17-19. Hadad was a boy at the time, but he escaped to Midian with some of his father's officials. At Paran some other men joined them, and they went to the king of Egypt. The king liked Hadad and gave him food, some land, and a house, and even let him marry the sister of Queen Tahpenes.
20. Hadad and his wife had a son named Genubath, and the queen let the boy grow up in the palace with her own children.
21. When Hadad heard that David and Joab were dead, he said to the king, “Your Majesty, please let me go back to my own country.”
22. “Why?” asked the king. “Do you want something I haven't given you?”“No, I just want to go home.”