1 Kings 11:16

16 For Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months until he exterminated every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 11:16

For six months did Joab remain with all Israel
With the whole army:

until he had cut off every male in Edom;
as he supposed; for it was not fact, since after this they increased again, and became a powerful people, and had a king over them, and revolted from Judah, ( 2 Kings 8:20-22 ) .

1 Kings 11:16 In-Context

14 Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom.

15 It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom.

16 For Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months until he exterminated every male in Edom.

17 But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad [was] a young boy.

18 They had set out from Midian until they came to Paran where they took men from Paran with them and came [to] Egypt, [to] Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave to him a house and assigned food for him and gave him land.