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18 Then King Rehoboam sent (A)Hadoram,[a] who was taskmaster over the forced labour, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 10:18 Spelled Adoram in 1 Kings 12:18

18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[a](A) who was in charge of forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 10:18 Hebrew Hadoram, a variant of Adoniram

Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and (A)Adoniram the son of Abda was in charge of (B)the forced labour.

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Ahishar—palace administrator;(A)

Adoniram(B) son of Abda—in charge of forced labor.(C)

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21 (A)their descendants who were left after them in the land, (B)whom the people of Israel were unable to devote to destruction[a](C)these Solomon drafted to be (D)slaves, and so they are to this day.

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  1. 1 Kings 9:21 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

21 Solomon conscripted the descendants(A) of all these peoples remaining in the land—whom the Israelites could not exterminate[a](B)—to serve as slave labor,(C) as it is to this day.

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  1. 1 Kings 9:21 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

18 Then King Rehoboam sent (A)Adoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labour, and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

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18 King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,[a](A) who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death.(B) King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem.

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  1. 1 Kings 12:18 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 4:6 and 5:14); Hebrew Adoram

10 However, (A)they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made (B)to do forced labour.

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10 They did not dislodge the Canaanites living in Gezer; to this day the Canaanites live among the people of Ephraim but are required to do forced labor.(A)

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