“The LORD raised up an adversary to Solomon: Hadad the Edomite. He was one of the king’s offspring in Edom.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 11 contains 43 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.