³⁸ As for the censers of these ^[a]men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the Lord and they are holy; and ^(A)they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.”

²³ Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has ^(A)not spoken this word against his own ^[a]life.