⁴⁹ So all the guests who were with Adonijah were afraid, and arose, and each one went his way.

⁴ They drank wine, ^(A)and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

^5 (B)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his ^(C)knees knocked against each other.

The Righteous Are Bold as a Lion