⁴⁹ And all the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his way.

¹ The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion.

⁴ My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

⁴ They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

⁵ In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

⁶ Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.