Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Joab had

1 Kings 1:7
And he talked with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest. And they helped Adonijah, following him.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance and retribution belong to Me. Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste.
2 Samuel 18:2
And David sent forth a third of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, I will also surely go forth with you myself.

Caught

1 Kings 1:50
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
Exodus 27:2
And you shall make the horns of it upon the four corners of it. Its horns shall be of the same, and you shall overlay it with bronze.