The offender, who rebelled against Solomon. He was a child, of the Edomite race, of royal descent. When Joab, David's general, had subdued Edom and in six months had killed all those who were of age and able to bear arms, this [Hadad] fled and came before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. He was hospitable towards him and took him in and gave to him a house and a plot of land for sustenance and when [Hadad] came to his prime he loved him very much, so he gave him the sister of his own wife to wed, Thaphines by name, by whom he had a son who was raised amongst the sons of the king. When he heard in Egypt of the death of David and of that of Joab, he approached Pharaoh and asked to be released from him to go to his homeland. When the king asked him what lack there was or what hardships such that he was eager to leave him, he did not send him off at that point, but later, in the time when affairs were going badly for Solomon, on account of his aforementioned faults and transgressions and the anger of God for him over these same things, Hadad came by [the permission of] the Pharaoh into Edom. He ruled the Syrians and harassed the country of the Israelites, and he attacked Solomon.