1 Raja-raja 11:15-17

11:15 During David’s campaign against Edom, ¹  Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom. 11:16 For six months Joab and the entire Israelite army ²  stayed there until they had exterminated every male in Edom. ³  11:17 Hadad, ⁴  who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt. ⁵ 

[11:15]  ¹ tn Heb “when David was [fighting (?)] with Edom.”

[11:16]  ² tn Heb “and all Israel.”

[11:16]  ³ tn Heb “until he had cut off every male in Edom.”

[11:17]  ⁴ tn The MT reads “Adad,” an alternate form of the name Hadad.

[11:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “and Adad fled, he and Edomite men from the servants of his father, to go to Egypt, and Hadad was a small boy.”