Bible in Basic English
"(For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)"
— 1 Kings 11:16, Bible in Basic English
“(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)”
“(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom); ”
“(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);”
“(For Joab remained there six months with all Israel, till he had slain every male in Edom,)”
Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.
So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;
(For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)
Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his father;
And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.
Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.