Exo 21:14, 1Ki 1:51, 2:28, Neh 7:1 | ESV | STEP | But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning , you shall take him from my altar , that he may die .

Exodus 21:14

14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, ^ayou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

1 Kings 1:51

51 Then it was told Solomon, “Behold, Adonijah fears King Solomon, for behold, he has laid hold of the horns of the altar, saying, ‘Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.’”

1 Kings 2:28

28 When the news came to Joab—for Joab ^bhad supported Adonijah although ^che had not supported Absalom—Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and caught hold of the ^dhorns of the altar.

Nehemiah 7:1

1 Now when the wall had been built ^eand I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,