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This is what he did for all his foreign wives, who then offered and sacrificed to their gods.
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So ADONAI grew angry with Shlomo, because his heart had turned away from ADONAI the God of Isra'el, who had appeared to him twice
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and given him orders concerning this matter that he should not follow other gods. But he didn't obey ADONAI's orders.
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So ADONAI said to Shlomo, "Since this is what has been in your mind, and you haven't kept my covenant and my regulations which I ordered you to obey, I will tear the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
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However, for David your father's sake I won't do it while you are alive, but I will tear it away from your son.
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Even then, I won't tear away all the kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Yerushalayim, which I have chosen."
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Then ADONAI raised up an adversary against Shlomo, Hadad the Edomi, of the royal line of Edom.
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Back when David had been in Edom, and Yo'av the commander of the army had gone up to bury the dead, having killed every male in Edom
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(for Yo'av and all Isra'el had stayed there six months, until he had eliminated every male in Edom),
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Hadad had fled, he and a number of Edomi servants of his father's with him, and gone into Egypt; at the time Hadad had been but a small boy.
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On their way, they passed through Midyan and arrived in Pa'ran, took with them men from Pa'ran, and went on into Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave Hadad a house, saw to it that he had food and gave him land.