So King Solomon summoned Adonijah down from the altar, and he came and bowed down before King Solomon, who said to him, “Go to your home.”
We have here, I. The tidings of Solomon's inauguration brought to Adonijah and his party, in the midst of their jollity: They had made an end of eating, and, it should seem, it was a great while before they made an end, for all the affair of Solomon's anointing was ordered and finished while they were at dinner, glutting themselves.
Commenting on 1 Kings 1:41-53
So King Solomon sent, and they brought down Adonijah from the altar,.... It being built upon an hill, as both that at Gibeon, and in Araunah's threshing floor, were: and he came and bowed himself to King Solomon; in a way of reverence and subjection, acknowledging him to be king, and himself his subject: and Solomon said to him, go to thine house; in peace...
they brought him down from the altar--from the ledge around the altar on which he was standing. he bowed himself--that is, did homage to Solomon as king. Next: 1 Kings Chapter 2