1 Kings 11:21
And when Adad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the general of the army was dead, he add to Pharao: Let me depart, that I may go to my own country.
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Genesis 45:24So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.
Joshua 2:21But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall be quit of this oath which thou hast made us swear.
2 Samuel 3:21And Abner said to David: I will rise, that I may gather all Israel unto thee my lord the king, and may enter into a league with thee, and that thou mayst reign over all as thy soul desireth. Now when David bad brought Abner on his way, and he was gone in peace,
1 Kings 2:34So Banaias the son of Joiada went up, and setting upon him slew him, and he was buried in his house in the desert.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 11:15-26
Solomon's Adversaries. ( b. c. 980.) 14 And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom. 15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; 16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) 17 That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little… Read the whole commentary →