¹² Take some of the bull’s blood and put it on the horns^(A) of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of it at the base of the altar.^(B)

² It is to be square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high^[a]—its horns^(A) of one piece with it.

The Altar of Incense^(A)

²⁵ They made the altar of incense^(B) out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high^[a]—its horns^(C) of one piece with it.

⁷ The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns^(A) of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the Lord in the tent of meeting. The rest of the bull’s blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar^(B) of burnt offering^(C) at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

⁵⁰ But Adonijah, in fear of Solomon, went and took hold of the horns^(A) of the altar.

²⁸ When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns^(A) of the altar.

¹⁵ Above that, the altar hearth^(A) is four cubits high, and four horns^(B) project upward from the hearth.