1 Kings 11:4-18 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

4. and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

5. He worshipped Astarte the goddess of Sidon, and Molech the disgusting god of Ammon.

6. He sinned against the Lord and was not true to him as his father David had been.

7. On the mountain east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.

8. He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.

11. and said to him, “Because you have deliberately broken your covenant with me and disobeyed my commands, I promise that I will take the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your officials.

12. However, for the sake of your father David I will not do this in your lifetime, but during the reign of your son.

13. And I will not take the whole kingdom away from him; instead, I will leave him one tribe for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have made my own.”

14. So the Lord caused Hadad, of the royal family of Edom, to turn against Solomon.

17. except Hadad and some of his father's Edomite servants, who escaped to Egypt. (At that time Hadad was just a child.)

18. They left Midian and went to Paran, where some other men joined them. Then they travelled to Egypt and went to the king, who gave Hadad some land and a house and provided him with food.

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