Discovery Box1 Kings 13:4-5 
Context13:4 When the king heard what the prophet 1 cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand 2 and ordered, 3 “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up 4 and he could not pull it back. 13:5 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 tn Heb “the man of God.”
2 tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”
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
