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1 Kings 11:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They arose out of Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land. "

1 Kings 11:18

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16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),

17 Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt, when Hadad was still a little child.

18 They arose out of Midian and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.

19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him as wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

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Related Verses

Genesis 21:21

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"He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt."

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Genesis 37:36

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"The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard."

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1 Samuel 12:8

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"“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place."

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Jeremiah 43:7

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"They came into the land of Egypt, for they didn’t obey the LORD’s voice; and they came to Tahpanhes."

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Judith 5:10

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"Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown up. They became a great multitude there, so that one could not count the population of their nation."

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Numbers 10:12

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"The children of Israel went forward on their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran."

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1 Kings 11:1

"Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,"

1 Kings 11:2

"of the nations concerning which the LORD said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love."

1 Kings 11:3

"He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. His wives turned his heart away."

1 Kings 11:4

"When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was."

1 Kings 11:5

"For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites."

1 Kings 11:6

"Solomon did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and didn’t go fully after the LORD, as David his father did."

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