Discovery Box1 Kings 13:3 
Context13:3 That day he also announced 1 a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: 2 The altar will be split open and the ashes 3 on it will fall to the ground.” 4
1 Kings 13:5
Context13:5 The altar split open and the ashes 5 fell from the altar to the ground, 6 in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. 7
1 Kings 18:1
ContextElijah Meets the King’s Servant
18:1 Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, 8 “Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground.”
1 Kings 18:39
Context18:39 When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! 9 The Lord is the true God!”
1 Kings 18:42
Context18:42 So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.
1 tn Heb “gave.”
2 tn Heb “spoken.”
3 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
4 tn Heb “will be poured out.”
5 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
6 tn Heb “were poured out from the altar.”
7 tn Heb “according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
8 tn Heb “the word of the
9 tn Heb “the God” (the phrase occurs twice in this verse).
