And they told to Solomon, and said, Lo! Adonijah dreadeth the king Solomon, and he holdeth the horn, or corner, of the altar, and said, King Solomon swear to me today, that he shall not slay his servant with sword.
And a messenger came to Solo-mon, and said that Joab had bowed after Adonijah, and that he had not bowed after Solomon. Therefore Joab fled into the tabernacle of the Lord, and took the horn of the altar.
And Aaron shall pray on the horns thereof once by the year, in the blood which is offered for sin, and he shall please the Lord thereon in your generations; it shall be the holy of holy things to the Lord.