Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, and all Israel stoned him with stones, and he died. And King Rehoboam hurried to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem — Rehoboam's dispatch of Adoram, the overseer of forced labor, represents a catastrophic misreading of the moment. The people's response—stoning him—is not merely mob violence but a dramatic renunciation of the corvée system itself. The verb וַיָּסֹף (vayasof, he hurried) shows Rehoboam fleeing ignominiously, his royal authority reduced to a desperate escape. His flight to Jerusalem, the southern capital, traces the geographical contraction of Davidic power.

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