King Solomon loved many foreign, including the daughter of Pharaoh—women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,onians, and Hittites. They were from the nations about which Yahweh said to the people of Israel, "You will not go among them to marry, neither will they come among you, for they will certainly turn your heart to their gods." In spite of this command, Solomon was affectionate toward these women in love. Solomon had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away. For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; his heart was not fully surrendered to Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon followed Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and he followed Molech, the idol of the Ammonites. Solomon did what was evil in the of Yahweh; he did not fully follow Yahweh as David his father had done. Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting idol of Moab, on a hill east of Jerusalem, and also for Molech, the disgusting idol of the people ofmon. He also built high places for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods at them. Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from him, the God of Israel, even though he had appeared to him twice and commanded him about this very thing, that he should not go after other gods. But Solomon did not obey what Yahweh commanded. Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because you have done this and have not kept the covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant. However, for David your father's sake, I will not do it in your lifetime, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son. Yet I will not tear away all the kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for David my servant's sake, and for the of, which I have chosen." Then Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was from the royal family of Edom. When David was in Edom, Joab the captain of the army had gone to bury the dead, every man who had been killed in Edom. Joab and all Israel remained there six months until he had killed every male in Edom. But Hadad fled to Egypt with other Edomites, his father's servants, when Hadad was still a little child. They left Midian and came to Paran, from where they took men with them to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house and land and food. Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that Pharaoh gave him a wife, his own wife's sister, the sister of Tahpenes the queen. The sister of Tahpenes gave birth to Hadad's son. They named him Genubath. Tahpenes raised him in Pharaoh's palace. Soubath lived in Pharaoh's palace among the children of Pharaoh. While he was in Egypt, Hadad heard that David had lain down with his ancestors and that Joab the captain of the army was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Let me depart so I may go to
