1 Kings 2:28

Modern English Version

Then word came to Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah, though he did not support Absalom. And Joab fled to the tabernacle of the Lord and caught hold of the horns of the altar.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:25

Now Absalom had placed Amasa over the army in the place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Jether the Ishmaelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

2 Samuel 18:2

Then David dispatched the people, one-third under the command of Joab, one-third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah and brother of Joab, and one-third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. Then David said to the people, “I myself will go out with you.”

1 Kings 1:50

Adonijah feared Solomon. So he got up and went to the altar and held on to its horns.

1 Kings 1:7

He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they agreed to help him.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully comes upon his neighbor in order to kill him cunningly, then you must take him from My altar, that he may die.

Exodus 27:2

You shall make its horns on its four corners. Its horns shall be part of it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

Deuteronomy 32:35

Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot will slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them.