Discovery Box1 Kings 13:5 
Context13:5 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 13:32
Context13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 4 against the altar in Bethel 5 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 6 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
4 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
5 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
6 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.
