1 Kings 11:15-17

11:15 During David’s campaign against Edom, ¹  Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom. 11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army ²  stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. ³  11:17 Hadad, ⁴  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “when David was [fighting (?)] with Edom.”

² tn Heb “and all Israel.”

³ tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”

⁴ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

⁵ tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”