1 Kings 11:17

Hadad fled Here the Hebrew text by an error of the scribe gives Adadas 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 allhis father's servants escaped with him.

to gointo 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.

Hadadbeing yet a little child Solomon uses the same expression of himself in 1 Kings 3:7. It implies youth, but not necessarily infancy.