Discovery Box1 Kings 1:50 
Context1:50 Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. 1
1 Kings 2:34
Context2:34 So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up and executed Joab; 2 he was buried at his home in the wilderness.
1 Kings 9:12
Context9:12 When Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the cities Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them. 3
1 Kings 12:5
Context12:5 He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.
1 Kings 17:5
Context17:5 So he did 4 as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.
1 Kings 17:11
Context17:11 As she went to get it, he called out to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread.” 5
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 “struck him and killed him.” The referent (Joab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
3 tn Heb “they were not agreeable in his eyes.”
4 tn Heb “So he went and did.”
5 tn The Hebrew text also includes the phrase “in your hand.”
