1 Kings - 11:16 Meaning
“(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
11:14-25 While Solomon kept close to God and to his duty, there was no enemy to give him uneasiness; but here we have an account of two. If against us, he can make us fear even the least, and the very grasshopper shall be a burden. Though they were moved by principles of ambition or revenge, God used them to correct Solomon.
“Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.”
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