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 20:30

20:30 The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. ⁴  Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room. ⁵ 

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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 “and the remaining ones fled to Aphek to the city and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men, the ones who remained.”

⁵ tn Heb “and Ben Hadad fled and went into the city, [into] an inner room in an inner room.”