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.
20. Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to his son, Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house. Genubath lived in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.
21. When Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, “Allow me to depart and go to my own country.”
22. Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me that you want to go to your own country?”And he answered, “Nothing, however let me go anyway.”
23. God stirred up another adversary against him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who fled from his lord Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
24. He gathered a group of men and became leader over a band when David killed the men of Zobah, and they fled to Damascus and lived and reigned there.