²⁸ When the news came to Joab—for Joab had supported Adonijah though he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and grasped the horns of the altar.^(A)

⁵⁰ Adonijah, fearing Solomon, got up and went to grasp the horns of the altar.^(A)

⁷ He conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with the priest Abiathar, and they supported Adonijah.^(A)

² And David sent forth the army: one third under the command of Joab; one third under the command of Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother; and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the men, “I myself will also go out with you.”^(A)

¹⁴ Joab said, “I will not waste time like this with you.” He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak.^{(A) 15} And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

²⁵ Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army in the place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,^[a] who had married Abigal daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.^(A)

² You shall make horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.