19
And Hadad found great grace in the sight of Pharaoh so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Queen Tahpenes.
20
And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath, his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.
21
And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers and that Joab, the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart that I may go to my own land.
22
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me that, behold, thou seekest to go to thy own land? And he answered, Nothing; however, let me go anyway.
23
And God stirred him up
another adversary, Rezon, the son of Eliadah, who fled from his lord Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
24
And he gathered men unto him and became captain over a band, when David slew those
of Zobah; and they went to Damascus and dwelt there, and they made him king in Damascus.
25
And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the evil that Hadad
did, and he abhorred Israel and reigned over Syria.
26
Likewise Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s slave, whose mother’s name
was Zeruah, a widow woman, lifted up his hand against the king.
27
And this
was why he lifted up
his hand against the king: Solomon in building Millo, closed the breach of the city of David, his father.
28
And the man Jeroboam
was a mighty man of valour, and Solomon, seeing that the young man was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29
And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah, the Shilonite, found him in the way; and he
was covered with a new garment; and the two
were alone in the field.