1 Kings 11:17

New English Translation

Hadad, who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.

Cross References

2 Samuel 4:4

Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. Mephibosheth was his name.

1 Kings 11:16

For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom.

1 Kings 11:18

They went from Midian to Paran; they took some men from Paran and went to Egypt. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, supplied him with a house and food and even assigned him some land.

2 Kings 11:2

So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.