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
When the message came to Joab (now Joab {had supported} Adonijah but {had not supported} Absalom), he fled to the tent of Yahweh and grasped the horns of the altar.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die.
Exodus 38:2
And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were {of one piece with it}; and he overlaid it [with] bronze.
Psalm 118:27
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind [the] festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar.