1 Kings 1:50

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

1 Kings 6:22

6:22 He plated the entire inside of the temple with gold, as well as the altar inside the inner sanctuary. ² 

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 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.

² tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”