Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.

God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.