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.

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.

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.

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)