2. He married them even though the Lord had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with these people, because they would cause the Israelites to give their loyalty to other gods.
3. Solomon married 700 princesses and also had 300 concubines. They made him turn away from God
4. and by the time he was old they had led him into the worship of foreign gods. He was not faithful to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.
5. He worshipped Astarte the goddess of Sidon, and Molech the disgusting god of Ammon.
6. He sinned against the Lord and was not true to him as his father David had been.
7. On the mountain east of Jerusalem he built a place to worship Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and a place to worship Molech, the disgusting god of Ammon.
8. He also built places of worship where all his foreign wives could burn incense and offer sacrifices to their own gods.
15-16. Long before this, when David had conquered Edom, Joab the commander of his army had gone there to bury the dead. He and his men remained in Edom six months, and during that time they killed every male in Edom
17. except Hadad and some of his father's Edomite servants, who escaped to Egypt. (At that time Hadad was just a child.)
18. They left Midian and went to Paran, where some other men joined them. Then they travelled to Egypt and went to the king, who gave Hadad some land and a house and provided him with food.