Verse 16
1 Kings 11:16
Bible in Basic English
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(For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֣י שֵׁ֧שֶׁת חֳדָשִׁ֛ים יָֽשַׁב שָׁ֥ם יוֹאָ֖ב וְ/כָל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עַד הִכְרִ֥ית כָּל זָכָ֖ר בֶּ/אֱדֽוֹם
English Translation
For six months Joab and all Israel stayed there until they had cut off every male in Edom.
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Chapter 11 Context
1
Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zid...
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The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from the...
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He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives...
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For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; a...
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For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of th...
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And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as D...
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Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jer...
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And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.
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And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God (Elohi...
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And had given him orders about this very thing, that he was not to go after other gods; but he did n...
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11
So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws,...
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I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
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Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my...
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So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
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And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the...
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(For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)
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Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his fath...
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18
And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to E...
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19
Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the que...
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And the sister of Tahpenes had a son by him, Genubath, whom Tahpenes took care of in Pharaoh's house...
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Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, th...
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But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desir...
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And God (Elohim) sent another trouble-maker, Rezon, the son of Eliada, who had gone in flight from h...
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24
He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and bec...
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He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was...
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And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mo...
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The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the M...
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And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him...
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29
Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came ac...
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30
And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.
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31
And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take...
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32
(But one tribe will be his, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town which, o...
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33
Because they are turned away from me to the worship of Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and...
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But I will not take the kingdom from him; I will let him be king all the days of his life, because o...
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But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.
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And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning bef...
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And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your so...
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And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my...
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39
(So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)
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40
And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Sh...
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41
Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all he did, and his wisdom, are they not recorded in the bo...
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42
And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
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43
And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his fathe...
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