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

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

⁴ My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

⁵ They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, you 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 lampstand on 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 face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.