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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 11:21 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
1Ki 11:21	Strong Concordance	And when Hadad [01908] heard [08085] in Egypt [04714] that David [01732] slept [07901] with his fathers [01], and that Joab [03097] the captain [08269] of the host [06635] was dead [04191], Hadad [01908] said [0559] to Pharaoh [06547], Let me depart [07971], that I may go [03212] to mine own country [0776].
	King James	And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
That Hadad should wait for the death of Joab before requesting leave to return to Idumaea shows how terrible an impression had been made by the severe measures which that commander had carried out twenty-five or thirty years previously Kg1 11:16. The inability of refugees to depart from an Oriental court without the king's leave, and his unwillingness ordinarily to grant leave, are illustrated by many passages in the history of Persia.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

That Hadad should wait for the death of Joab before requesting leave to return to Idumaea shows how terrible an impression had been made by the severe measures which that commander had carried out twenty-five or thirty years previously Kg1 11:16. The inability of refugees to depart from an Oriental court without the king's leave, and his unwillingness ordinarily to grant leave, are illustrated by many passages in the history of Persia.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Joab - Whom he feared as much as David himself. Own country - Whither accordingly he came; and was there, even from the beginning of Solomon's reign. And it is probable, by the near relation which was between his wife and Solomon's; and, by Pharaoh's intercession, he obtained his kingdom with condition of subjection and tribute to be paid by him to Solomon; which condition he kept 'till Solomon fell from God, and then began to be troublesome, and dangerous to his house and kingdom.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Joab - Whom he feared as much as David himself. Own country - Whither accordingly he came; and was there, even from the beginning of Solomon's reign. And it is probable, by the near relation which was between his wife and Solomon's; and, by Pharaoh's intercession, he obtained his kingdom with condition of subjection and tribute to be paid by him to Solomon; which condition he kept 'till Solomon fell from God, and then began to be troublesome, and dangerous to his house and kingdom.

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