whom he had a son; who was
brought up with the king's children. When Hadad heard in Egypt that both
David and Joab were dead, he came to Pharaoh, and desired that he would
permit him to go to his own country; upon which the king asked what it
was that he wanted, and what hardship he had met with, that he was so
desirous to leave him. And when he was often troublesome to him, and
entreated him to dismiss him, he did not then do it; but at the
time when Solomon's affairs began to grow worse, on account of his
forementioned transgressions [21] and God's anger against him for the
same, Hadad, by Pharaoh's permission, came to Edom; and when he was not
able to make the people forsake Solomon, for it was kept under by many
garrisons, and an innovation was not to be made with safety, he removed
thence, and came into Syria; there he lighted upon one Rezon, who had
run away from Hadadezer, king of Zobah, his master, and was become a
robber in that country, and joined friendship with him, who had already
a band of robbers about him. So he went up, and seized upon that part of
Syria, and was made king thereof. He also made incursions into the land
of Israel, and did it no small mischief, and spoiled it, and that in
the lifetime of Solomon. And this was the calamity which the Hebrews
suffered by Hadad.

7. There was also one of Solomon's own nation that made an attempt
against him, Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had an expectation of
rising, from a prophecy that had been made to him long before. He was
left a child by his father, and brought up by his mother; and when
Solomon saw that he was of an active and bold disposition, he made him
the curator of the walls which he built round about Jerusalem; and he
took such care of those works, that the king approved of his behavior,
and gave him, as a reward for the same, the charge of the tribe
of Joseph. And when about that time Jeroboam was once going out of
Jerusalem, a prophet of the city Shilo, whose name was Ahijah, met him
and saluted him; and when he had taken him a little aside to a place out
of the way, where there was not one other person present, he rent the
garment he had on into twelve pieces, and bid Jeroboam take ten of them;
and told him beforehand, that "this is the will of God; he will part the
dominion of Solomon, and give one tribe, with that which is next it, to
his son, because of the promise made to David for his succession, and
will have ten tribes to thee, becaus