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 came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he didn't turn after Absalom. Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Exodus 21:14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Exodus 38:2
He made its horns on its four corners. Its horns were of one piece with it, and he overlaid it with brass.
Psalm 118:27
Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.