1 Kings 11:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

1 Kings 11:16 —

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Atheism Attributes of God Backsliders Call Church Converts Edom Edomites

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-25)

While Solomon kept closely to God and to his duty there was no adversary nor evil occurrent (1 Kgs. 5:4), nothing to create him any disturbance or uneasiness in the least; but here we have an account of two adversaries that appeared against him, inconsiderable, and that could not have done any thing worth taking notice of if Solomon had not first made God his enemy. What hurt could Hadad or Rezon…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

14-25. the Lord stirred up an adversary--that is, permitted him, through the impulse of his own ambition, or revenge, to attack Israel. During the war of extermination, which Joab carried on in Edom (2Sa 8:13), this Hadad, of the royal family, a mere boy when rescued from the sword of the ruthless conqueror, was carried into Egypt, hospitably entertained, and became allied with the house of the Eg…