²² Then Pharaoh said to him, “But what have you lacked with me, that suddenly you seek to go to your own country?”

So he answered, “Nothing, but do let me go anyway.”

²³ And God raised up another adversary against him, Rezon the son of Eliadah, who had fled from his lord, ^(A)Hadadezer king of Zobah. ²⁴ So he gathered men to him and became captain over a band of raiders, ^(B)when David killed those of Zobah. And they went to Damascus and dwelt there, and reigned in Damascus.