And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
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Gill's Exposition
And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh,.... Perhaps for his comely personage, princely qualities, and good behaviour, as he grew up:
so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own…
Barnes' Notes
Midian - A town in the south of Judah. Paran is the desert tract immediately to the south of Judaea, the modern desert of et-Tih. Pharaoh - King of the twenty-first (Tanite) dynasty; probably he was…
Adam Clarke
These arose out of Midian - They at first retired to Midian, which lay to the southwest of the Dead Sea. Not supposing themselves in safety there, they went afterwards to Paran in the south of Idumea,…
While Solomon kept closely to God and to his duty there was no adversary nor evil occurrent (Kg1 5:4), nothing to create him any disturbance or uneasiness in the least; but here we have an account of…
Cambridge Bible
And they arose out of Midian It is not easy to decide what place or district is meant by Midian. The country so called in the time of Moses (Exo 2:15; Exo 3:1) could not have been far away from Mt.…
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