1 Kings 1:50 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵⁰ Adonijah, fearing Solomon, got up and went to grasp the horns of the altar.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁰ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁰ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose and went [to the tabernacle tent on Mt. Zion] and caught hold of the horns of the altar [as a fugitive's refuge].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁰ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

Common English Bible

⁵⁰ Adonijah was afraid of Solomon, so he got up and went to grab hold of the horns of the altar.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁰ Then Adonijah, fearing Solomon, rose up and went away. And he took hold of the horn of the altar.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁰ And Adonias fearing Solomon arose, and went, and took hold on the horn of the altar.

1 Kings 1:50 Cross References

1 Kings 1:49

Then all the guests of Adonijah got up trembling and went their own ways.

1 Kings 1:51

Solomon was informed, “Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon; see, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’ ”

1 Kings 2:28

When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah though he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and grasped the horns of the altar.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Exodus 27:2

You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

Exodus 30:10

Once a year Aaron shall perform the rite of atonement on its horns. Throughout your generations he shall perform the atonement for it once a year with the blood of the atoning purification offering. It is most holy to the Lord.”

Exodus 38:2

He made horns for it on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with bronze.

Ezekiel 43:15

and the altar hearth, four cubits, and from the altar hearth projecting upward, four horns.