Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Bible References
Caught
1 Kings 2:28
The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah but not Absalom, Joab fled to the Lord’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.
Exodus 21:14
If a person schemes and willfully acts against his neighbor to murder him, you must take him from My altar to be put to death.
Exodus 38:2
He made horns for it on its four corners; the horns were of one piece. Then he overlaid it with bronze.
Psalm 118:27 The Lord is God and has given us light.
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords
to the horns of the altar.
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords
to the horns of the altar.