Graphic Bible · Scene 8 of 19

Hadad reaches Egypt, gains land and favor, marries Tahpenes’s sister, and raises Genubath in Pharaoh’s household.
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1 Kings 11:18-20

Hadad grows in Pharaoh’s house

Solomon’s Divided Allegiance · 1 Kings 11

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18They arose from Midian and came to Paran, and they took men with them from Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he gave him a house and assigned him food, and gave him land.

19Hadad found great favor in Pharaoh’s eyes, and he gave him as a wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen mother.

20And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaned him within Pharaoh’s house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s house among the sons of Pharaoh.

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