1 Kings 12:18

REHOBOAM SENT ADORAM TO CORRECT THE PEOPLE

"Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed, to get him up to his chariot to flee to Jerusalem. So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only."

"Adoram" (1 Kings 12:18). "This was probably the same officer as the Adoniram of 1 Kings 4:6"[11] Some believe that he might have been either a son or grandson of David's Adoniram.

"Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram" (the slave-driver) (1 Kings 12:18). Rehoboam was still following the advice of his crazy young advisors, or he could never have made another mistake of this magnitude. All Israel had one big belly full of slave drivers with their whips and rods; and there was absolutely nothing that Rehoboam could have done that was any more calculated to bring the rebellion to a climax than his sending this hated emissary to be his representative with the people. They promptly stoned him to death and would doubtless have done the same thing for Rehoboam, if he had not managed to escape to his chariot and beat a hasty retreat to Jerusalem.

"Unto this day" (1 Kings 12:19). "These words show that the author of Kings was using in his history the exact words of an ancient document written prior to the fall of Smaria in 722 B.C."[12]