50And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
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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.
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-53)We have here, I. The tidings of Solomon’s inauguration brought to Adonijah and his party, in the midst of their jollity: They had made an end of eating , and, it should seem, it was a great while before they made an end, for all the affair of Solomon’s anointing was ordered and finished while they were at dinner, glutting themselves. Thus those who serve not our Lord Christ , but oppose him, are c…
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