^16-18 It took six months to accomplish this, but they finally killed all except Hadad and a few royal officials who took him to Egypt (he was a very small child at the time). They slipped out of Midian and went to Paran, where others joined them and accompanied them to Egypt, and Pharaoh had given them homes and food.

¹⁹ Hadad became one of Pharaoh’s closest friends, and he gave him a wife—the sister of Queen Tahpenes. ²⁰ She presented him with a son, Genubath, who was brought up in Pharaoh’s palace among Pharaoh’s own sons.