translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: Summon Bathsheba. Bathsheba must have left the room when Nathan arrived (see 1:22 ).


text: Summon … Nathan. Nathan must have left the room when Bathsheba reentered.


text: The Kerethites and Pelethites were members of David’s royal guard (see 2 Sam 8:18 ). The Kerethites may have been descendants of an ethnic group originating in Crete.


text: Grabbed hold of the horns of the altar. The “horns” of the altar were the horn-shaped projections on the four corners of the altar (see Exod 27:2 ). By going to the holy place and grabbing hold of the horns of the altar, Adonijah was seeking asylum from Solomon.