BRAGADAYJAH 1018
Men began to rise up against Solomon
When Hadad and his protectors arrived in Egypt, the Pharaoh
had taken them in and gave them help and protection, and also a house and land.
And as Hadad grew he found great favor in the sight of the Pharaoh who gave him
the sister of his own wife Tahpenes the queen to be his wife. And Hadad’s wife bore him a son Genubath who
was weaned and brought up in Pharaoh’s household. And when Hadad while still in
Egypt heard that King David was dead, and that Joab the captain of the hosts
was also dead, Hadad asked the Pharaoh to let him depart and return to his own
country. And the Pharaoh asked him what he needed, or what he lacked, that
would induce him to depart Egypt; and Hadad explained that there was nothing he
lacked but, howbeit he still wanted to return to his own country. And God also
stirred up another adversary to Solomon, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who had fled
from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah. And he gathered men unto him and became
the captain over a band at the time that David had slain them, after which he
had taken up refuge in Damascus where he remained. And he was an adversary to
Israel all the days of Solomon; and he hated Israel and reigned over Syria. In
addition Jeroboam the son of Nebat an Ephrathite of Zereda , a widow, Solomon’s
servant, even he lifted up his hand against King Solomon.
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