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 8:40

8:40 Then they will obey ²  you throughout their lifetimes as ³  they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.

1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ⁴  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ⁵  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 3:28

3:28 When all Israel heard about the judicial decision which the king had rendered, they respected ⁶  the king, for they realized ⁷  that he possessed supernatural wisdom ⁸  to make judicial decisions.

1 Kings 17:13

17:13 Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid. Go and do as you planned. ⁹  But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.

1 Kings 18:12

18:12 But when I leave you, the Lord’s spirit will carry you away so I can’t find you. ¹⁰  If I go tell Ahab I’ve seen you, he won’t be able to find you and he will kill me. ¹¹  That would not be fair, ¹²  because your servant has been a loyal follower of ¹³  the Lord from my youth.

1 Kings 8:43

8:43 Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. ¹⁴  Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, ¹⁵  obey ¹⁶  you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you. ¹⁷ 

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 “fear.”

³ tn Heb “all the days [in] which.”

³ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁴ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

⁴ tn Heb “feared,” perhaps in the sense, “stood in awe of.”

⁵ tn Heb “saw.”

⁶ tn Heb “the wisdom of God within him.”

⁵ tn Heb “according to your word.”

⁶ tn Heb “to [a place] which I do not know.”

⁷ tn Heb “and I will go to inform Ahab and he will not find you and he will kill me.”

⁸ tn The words “that would not be fair” are added to clarify the logic of Obadiah’s argument.

⁹ tn Heb “has feared the Lord” (also see the note at 1 Kgs 18:3).

⁷ tn Heb “and do all which the foreigner calls to [i.e., “requests of”] you.”

⁸ tn Heb “your name.” See the note on the word “reputation” in v. 41.

⁹ tn Heb “fear.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “that your name is called over this house which I built.” The Hebrew idiom “to call the name over” indicates ownership. See 2 Sam 12:28.