1 Kings 1:50

New English Translation

Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

Cross References

1 Kings 1:49

All of Adonijah’s guests panicked; they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

1 Kings 1:51

Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:28

When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God and he has delivered us. Tie the offering with ropes to the horns of the altar!

Exodus 21:14

But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

Exodus 27:2

You are to make its four horns on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, and you are to overlay it with bronze.

Exodus 30:10

Aaron is to make atonement on its horns once in the year with some of the blood of the sin offering for atonement; once in the year he is to make atonement on it throughout your generations. It is most holy to the Lord.”

Exodus 38:2

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

Ezekiel 43:15

and the altar hearth, 7 feet, and from the altar hearth four horns projecting upward.