¹⁸ Then King Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

¹⁴ And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.

⁶ Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.

²⁴ And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;

⁵⁷ But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

⁵⁸ Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.

²⁶ Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

¹⁶ And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.

¹ The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.

² Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

²¹ But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.

¹⁸ Then Rehoboam sent Adoniram, the overseer of the forced work; and he was stoned to death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage to go in flight to Jerusalem.

¹⁸ And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.

¹⁹ So the servants of the chiefs of the divisions of the land went out of the town, with the army coming after them.

²⁰ And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.

¹⁰ But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.

⁴ And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.