Discovery Box1 Kings 11:17 
Context11:17 Hadad, 1 who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. 2
1 Kings 12:7
Context12:7 They said to him, “Today if you show a willingness to help these people and grant their request, they will be your servants from this time forward.” 3
1 tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.
2 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.”
3 tn Heb “If today you are a servant to these people and you serve them and answer them and speak to them good words, they will be your servants all the days.”
