Then he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they followed and helped Adonijah.

Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in [due] time; For the day of their calamity [is] at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.'

Then David sent out one third of the people under the hand of Joab, one third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, "I also will surely go out with you myself."

Then Joab said, "I cannot linger with you." And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Absalom's heart, while he was [still] alive in the midst of the terebinth tree.

And ten young men who bore Joab's armor surrounded Absalom, and struck and killed him.

Now Adonijah was afraid of Solomon; so he arose, and went and took hold of the horns of the altar.

"You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it. And you shall overlay it with bronze.