1. But King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,
2. from the nations which the Lord warned the children of Israel about, saying, “You shall not go in to them, nor shall they come in to you, for they will surely turn your heart away toward their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
3. He had seven hundred wives who were princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart away.
4. For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David his father had been.
5. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Molek, the abomination of the Ammonites.
6. Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not fully follow the Lord as his father David had done.
7. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is close to Jerusalem, and for Molek, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9. The Lord was angry with Solomon because he turned his heart away from the Lord God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
10. and had warned him about this, that he should not follow other gods, but he was disobedient to the Lord’s command.
11. Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and have not kept My covenant and statutes, which I commanded you, I will surely take the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
12. I will not do this in your lifetime for your father David’s sake, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
13. However, I will not take the whole kingdom away, but will preserve one tribe for your son for David My servant’s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem which I chose.”
14. The Lord stirred up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was a prince of Edom.
15. For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the slain, he had killed every male in Edom
16. (for six months Joab stayed there with his men until he had killed every male in Edom).
17. But Hadad fled to Egypt, he and some Edomites who served his father, Hadad still being a small child.
18. They set out from Midian and went to Paran, and they gathered men from Paran and then arrived in Egypt and presented him before Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and provisions and land.
19. Pharaoh had great affection for Hadad, so much so that he gave him his sister-in-law, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as a wife.