1 Kings 2:28

2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported ¹  Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ²  ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ³ 

1 Kings 2:2

2:2 “I am about to die. ⁴  Be strong and become a man!

1 Kings 8:16

8:16 He told David, ⁵  ‘Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a temple in which to live. ⁶  But I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

1 Kings 20:23

20:23 Now the advisers ⁷  of the king of Syria said to him: “Their God is a god of the mountains. That’s why they overpowered us. But if we fight them in the plains, we will certainly overpower them.

¹ tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).

² tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

³ 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, Joab was seeking asylum from Solomon.

⁴ tn Heb “going the way of all the earth.”

⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

⁶ tn Heb “to build a house for my name to be there.”

⁷ tn Or “servants.”