1 Kings 11:17

_(FOR SIX MONTHS DID JOAB REMAIN THERE WITH ALL ISRAEL, UNTIL HE HAD CUT OFF EVERY MALE IN EDOM:)_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

14-25 While Solomon kept close to God and to his duty, there was no enemy to give him uneasiness; but here we have an account of two. If against us, he can make us fear even the least, and the very grasshopper shall be a burden. Though they were moved by principles of ambition or revenge, God used them to correct Solomon....

Verse 1 Kings 11:17. _HADAD_ BEING _YET A LITTLE CHILD._] נער קטן _naar_ _katan, a little boy_; one who was apprehensive of his danger, and could, with his father's servants, make his escape: not an infant....

EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S ADVERSARIES.—As the historian has collected together in 1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1; 1 Kings 8:1, all the information he can convey respecting the _temple, _and in 1 Kings 9:1; 1 Kings 10:1. all the scattered notices respecting Solomon's _power _and _greatness, _so here he arranges in one section the history of Solomon's _adversaries_._ _It must not be supposed that the following records stand in due chronological order. The enmities here mentioned did no

THAT HADAD FLED,.... While Joab was burying the slain: HE AND CERTAIN EDOMITES OF HIS FATHER'S SERVANTS WITH HIM; who either was a king, and these some of his officers and courtiers; or however was of the royal family, and had an equipage, and these some of them: TO GO INTO EGYPT; that was their view at first setting out, where they might hope for help, at least shelter: HADAD BEING YET A LITTLE CHILD; whom his father's servants hid, while Joab was making the slaughter he did, and took the opportunity of fleeing with him while he was burying the dead....

7. SOLOMON'S FAILURE: JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED AND THE BEGINNING OF DISRUPTION CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Solomon's polygamy and departure from God (1 Kings 11:1)_ 2. Hadad the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14) 3. Rezon the second adversary (1 Kings 11:23) 4. Jeroboam (1 Kings 11:26) 5. Solomon's reign and death (1 Kings 11:41) “But--.” An ominous word with which this chapter begins. It introduces us to the sad picture of Solomon's great apostasy. “He shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people

SIN OF SOLOMON, AND THE ADVERSARIES RAISED UP IN CONSEQUENCE. From various differences in the arrangement of the earlier verses in the LXX and Heb., it has been supposed that in its original form the narrative merely recorded the fact that Solomon had a number of wives, and that he built sanctuaries and offered sacrifice to their gods. In its present form the influence of a Deuteronomic editor is unmistakable. But the account of Solomon's adversaries (1 Kings 11:14 ff.) must be derived from an earlier source; and even as it stands does not necessarily mean that they were raised up in punishment of his sin. Hadad, the Edomite (1 Kings 11:14) must have troubled him early in his reign (1 Kings 11:21 f.), and Rezon wa

_Hadad fled_ Here the Hebrew text by an error of the scribe gives _Adad_as the name. Or is it because the aspirate gave people trouble then as now? _his father's servants_ This seems conclusive that Hadad's father had been king of Edom. The LXX. says _all_his father's servants escaped with him. _to go_into _Egypt_ In David's days, Egypt was not, as it became in the reign of Solomon, closely bound up with the interests of Israel. Hence the defeated Edomites could look for a refuge there. _Hadad_being yet _a little child_ Solomon uses the same expression of himself in 1 Kings 3:7. It implies youth, but not necessarily infancy....

II. SOLOMON'S TROUBLES 11:14-40 While reading the preceding Chapter s, one has the impression that Solomon enjoyed a reign of uninterrupted peace and splendor. But here at the close of the account of this king the author has gathered all the significant information concerning Solomon's adversaries. Owing to the fact that these accounts stand at the end of his history, many students have jumped to the conclusion that all Solomon's troubles arose at the end of his reign. This conclusion is, however, not justified. The hated opposition of Hadad began at an early period of Solomon's reign. So also, it would seem did the opposition of Rezon. These accounts are placed here because (1) it is the habit of the author to collect into one passage material related to a particular facet of Solomon's reign;[303] (2) it was only in his later life that these adversaries materially affected Solomon's pos...

SOLOMON'S ERRORS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. HIS DEATH This chapter furnishes an account of Solomon's marriages with numerous foreign princesses, and traces the evil effect of such in the toleration of idolatry, which provoked the Lord's anger. This was manifested in the growth of opposition abroad and disaffection at home, so that an otherwise brilliant reign had a cloudy ending....