1 Kings 13:5

13:5 The altar split open and the ashes 1  fell from the altar to the ground, 2  in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. 3 

1 Kings 13:9

13:9 For the Lord gave me strict orders, 4  ‘Do not eat or drink 5  there and do not go home the way you came.’”

1 Kings 13:26

13:26 When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, 6  he said, “It is the prophet 7  who rebelled against the Lord. 8  The Lord delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up 9  and killed him, just as the Lord warned him.” 10 

1 Kings 13:32

13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 11  against the altar in Bethel 12  and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 13  will certainly be fulfilled.”

1 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.

2 tn Heb “were poured out from the altar.”

3 tn Heb “according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.”

4 tn Heb “for this he commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying.”

5 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”

6 tn Heb “and the prophet who had brought him back from the road heard.”

7 tn Heb “the man of God.”

8 tn Heb “the mouth of the Lord.”

9 tn Heb “broke him,” or “crushed him.”

10 tn Heb “according to the word of the Lord which he spoke to him.”

11 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the Lord”

12 map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

13 tn Heb “Samaria.” The name of Israel’s capital city here stands for the northern kingdom as a whole. Actually Samaria was not built and named until several years after this (see 1 Kgs 16:24), so it is likely that the author of Kings, writing at a later time, is here adapting the old prophet’s original statement.