² And you shall make ^(A)horns for it on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and ^(B)you shall overlay it with bronze.

⁵⁰ And Adonijah feared Solomon. So he arose and went ^(A)and took hold of ^(B)the horns of the altar.

⁷ And the priest ^(A)shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before the Lord that is in the tent of meeting, and ^(B)all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

¹² and ^(A)shall take part of the blood of the bull and put it on the ^(B)horns of the altar with your finger, and the rest of^[a] the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

¹⁸ so that by two unchangeable things, in which ^(A)it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope ^(B)set before us.

⁶⁴ The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because ^(A)the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

²⁸ When the news came to Joab—for Joab ^(A)had supported Adonijah although ^(B)he had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and caught hold of the ^(C)horns of the altar.

³⁸ As for the censers of ^(A)these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the Lord, and they became holy. ^(B)Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.” ³⁹ So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar,

¹⁸ Then he shall go out to the altar that is ^(A)before the Lord and ^(B)make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and some of the blood of the goat, and put it on the horns of the altar all around.