18 Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram,[a](A) who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem. 19 Israel is still in rebellion against the house of David today.(B)

Rehoboam in Jerusalem

20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back,(C) they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel.(D) No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:18 LXX reads Adoniram; 1Kg 4:6; 5:14

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