1 Kings 1:40

1:40 All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake. ¹ 

1 Kings 1:50

1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ² 

1 Kings 2:34

2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; ³  he was buried at his home in the wilderness.

1 Kings 8:55

8:55 When he stood up, he pronounced a blessing over the entire assembly of Israel, saying in a loud voice:

1 Kings 12:8

12:8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ⁴ 

1 Kings 14:12

14:12 “As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

1 Kings 16:32

16:32 He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal he had built in Samaria.

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¹ tn Heb “and all the people went up after him, and the people were playing flutes and rejoicing with great joy and the ground split open at the sound of them.” The verb בָּקַע (baqa’, “to split open”), which elsewhere describes the effects of an earthquake, is obviously here an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

² sn Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.

³ tn Heb “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “He rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.” The referent (Rehoboam) of the initial pronoun (“he”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.