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
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Exodus 38:2
And he made its horns on the four corners of it; its horns were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with bronze.
Psalm 118:27
God is the LORD, who has showed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.