1 Kings 11:19
And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
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Gill's Exposition
And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son,.... Which signifies "stealth", and the name might be given in memory of himself being carried away by stealth from his own land:
whom Tahpenes…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
the queen The Hebrew word נבירה (g'birah) is not the usual word for -queen," but a title of special honour, used occasionally (1Ki 15:13; 1Ch 15:16) for the -queen-mother," always a person of great…
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