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1 Kings 11:15

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For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom

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1 Kings 11:15 in other translations

For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom

1 Kings 11:15 · American Standard Version

1 Kings 11:15 in context

  1. 13However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
  2. 14Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.
  3. 15For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck every male in Edom
  4. 16(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
  5. 17Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.