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 12:33

A Prophet from Judah Visits Bethel

12:33 On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) ²  Jeroboam ³  offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. ⁴  He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

1 Kings 13:4

13:4 When the king heard what the prophet ⁵  cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand ⁶  and ordered, ⁷  “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up ⁸  and he could not pull it back.

1 Kings 1:53

1:53 King Solomon sent men to bring him down ⁹  from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon told him, “Go home.” ¹⁰ 

1 Kings 3:4

3:4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for it had the most prominent of the high places. ¹¹  Solomon would offer up ¹²  a thousand burnt sacrifices on the altar there.

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. ¹³ 

1 Kings 13:1

13:1 Just then ¹⁴  a prophet ¹⁵  from Judah, sent by the Lord, arrived in Bethel, ¹⁶  as Jeroboam was standing near the altar ready to offer a sacrifice.

1 Kings 13:3

13:3 That day he also announced ¹⁷  a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: ¹⁸  The altar will be split open and the ashes ¹⁹  on it will fall to the ground.” ²⁰ 

1 Kings 13:5

13:5 The altar split open and the ashes ²¹  fell from the altar to the ground, ²²  in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. ²³ 

1 Kings 1:51

1:51 Solomon was told, “Look, Adonijah fears you; ²⁴  see, he has taken hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘May King Solomon solemnly promise ²⁵  me today that he will not kill his servant with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:28-29

2:28 When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported ²⁶  Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ²⁷  ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. ²⁸  2:29 When King Solomon heard ²⁹  that Joab had run to the tent of the Lord and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, ³⁰  “Go, strike him down.”

1 Kings 9:25

9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings ³¹  on the altar he had built for the Lord, burning incense along with them before the Lord. He made the temple his official worship place. ³² 

1 Kings 13:2

13:2 With the authority of the Lord ³³  he cried out against the altar, “O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, ‘Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’” ³⁴ 

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority ³⁵  against the altar in Bethel ³⁶  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north ³⁷  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 Kings 18:26

18:26 So they took a bull, as he had suggested, ³⁸  and prepared it. They invoked the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “Baal, answer us.” But there was no sound and no answer. They jumped ³⁹  around on the altar they had made. ⁴⁰ 

1 Kings 12:32

12:32 Jeroboam inaugurated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, ⁴¹  like the festival celebrated in Judah. ⁴²  On the altar in Bethel he offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. ⁴³  In Bethel he also appointed priests for the high places he had made.

[1:50]  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.

[12:33]  ² tn Heb “which he had chosen by himself.”

[12:33]  ³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Jeroboam) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:33]  ⁴ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:4]  ³ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”

[13:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “saying.”

[13:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”

[1:53]  ⁴ tn Heb “sent and they brought him down.”

[1:53]  ⁵ tn Heb “Go to your house.”

[3:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “for it was the great high place.”

[3:4]  ⁶ tn The verb form is an imperfect, which is probably used here in a customary sense to indicate continued or repeated action in past time. See GKC 314 §107.b.

[6:22]  ⁶ 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.”

[13:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look.” The Hebrew particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) is a rhetorical device by which the author invites the reader to visualize the scene for dramatic effect.

[13:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “the man of God.”

[13:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “came by the word of the Lord to Bethel.”

[13:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “gave.”

[13:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “spoken.”

[13:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

[13:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will be poured out.”

[13:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

[13:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “were poured out from the altar.”

[13:5]  ¹¹ tn Heb “according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.”

[1:51]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “King Solomon.” The name and title have been replaced by the pronoun (“you”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[1:51]  ¹¹ tn Or “swear an oath to.”

[2:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “turned after” (also later in this verse).

[2:28]  ¹² tn Heb “Joab.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[2:28]  ¹³ 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.

[2:29]  ¹² tn Heb “and it was related to King Solomon.”

[2:29]  ¹³ tn Heb “so Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying.”

[9:25]  ¹³ tn Or “tokens of peace”; NIV, TEV “fellowship offerings.”

[9:25]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and he made complete the house.”

[13:2]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “by the word of the Lord.”

[13:2]  ¹⁵ sn ‘Look…you.’ For the fulfillment of this prophecy see 2 Kgs 23:15-20.

[13:32]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

[13:32]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[13:32]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.

[18:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and they took the bull which he allowed them.”

[18:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “limped” (the same verb is used in v. 21).

[18:26]  ¹⁸ tc The MT has “which he made,” but some medieval Hebrew mss and the ancient versions have the plural form of the verb.

[12:32]  ¹⁷ sn The eighth month would correspond to October-November in modern reckoning.

[12:32]  ¹⁸ sn The festival he celebrated in Judah probably refers to the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e., Booths or Temporary Shelters), held in the seventh month (September-October). See also 1 Kgs 8:2.

[12:32]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and he offered up [sacrifices] on the altar; he did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves which he had made.”