Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 Kings 11:14-25. As usual, I encourage you to open your Bible and read the passage yourself first. See what you can glean with the Holy Spirit’s help. Then read the GAME sharing below. Let’s go!
1 Kings 11:14-25 (NIV)
14 Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
15 Earlier when David was fighting with Edom, Joab the commander of the army, who had gone up to bury the dead, had struck down all the men in Edom.
16 Joab and all the Israelites stayed there for six months, until they had destroyed all the men in Edom.
17 But Hadad, still only a boy, fled to Egypt with some Edomite officials who had served his father.
On verses 14-25: In verses 14-22 we read of Hadad, an Edomite prince who, despite coming from a royal family, endured some incredible hardship. When Hadad was just a young boy, Hadad lost his parents and his family when the Edomites were at war with the Israelites. Hadad would flee to Egypt and be given many of the material comforts that royalty would come to expect. Still, there was a pain in Hadad’s heart that none of those material comforts could heal, and a drive to get revenge on the country that was responsible for killing his parents.