Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 I Kings 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.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 11:21:
1 Kings 3:11
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