16. (Joab and all Israel stayed there six months until they had destroyed every male in Edom.)
17. Hadad was a young boy at the time. He and some of his father’s Edomite servants fled to Egypt.
18. They left Midian and went to Paran. Taking some men from Paran with them, they went to Pharaoh (the king of Egypt). Pharaoh gave Hadad a home, a food allowance, and land.
19. Pharaoh approved of Hadad. So he gave Hadad his sister-in-law, the sister of Queen Tahpenes, to be Hadad’s wife.