“And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.”
King James Version (KJV)
11:12 Fathers sake - For my promise made to him, #2Sam 7:12 |- 15.
11:13 One tribe - Benjamin was not entirely his, but partof it adhered to Jeroboam, as Bethel, #1Kings 12:29|,and Hephron, #2Chron 13:19|, both which were towns ofBenjamin.
11:15 In Edom - By his army, to war against it. To bury - TheIsraelites who were slain in the battle, #2Sam 8:13|,14, whom hehonourably interred in some certain place, to which he is said to go upfor that end. And this gave Hadad the opportunity of making his escape,whilst Joab and his men were employed in that solemnity.Had smitten - Or, and he smote, as it is in the Hebrew: which ishere noted as the cause of Hadad's flight; he understood what Joabhad done in part, and intended farther to do, even to kill all the malesand therefore fled for his life.