Discovery Box1 Kings 8:53 
Context8:53 After all, 1 you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, 2 just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”
1 Kings 13:3
Context13:3 That day he also announced 3 a sign, “This is the sign the Lord has predetermined: 4 The altar will be split open and the ashes 5 on it will fall to the ground.” 6
1 Kings 13:5
Context13:5 The altar split open and the ashes 7 fell from the altar to the ground, 8 in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. 9
1 Kings 13:32
Context13:32 for the prophecy he announced with the Lord’s authority 10 against the altar in Bethel 11 and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north 12 will certainly be fulfilled.”
1 Kings 14:11
Context14:11 Dogs will eat the members of your family 13 who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”’ Indeed, the Lord has announced it!
1 tn Or “For.”
2 tn Heb “your inheritance.”
3 tn Heb “gave.”
4 tn Heb “spoken.”
5 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
6 tn Heb “will be poured out.”
7 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
8 tn Heb “were poured out from the altar.”
9 tn Heb “according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
10 tn Heb “for the word which he cried out by the word of the
11 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
12 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.
13 tn The Hebrew text has “belonging to Jeroboam” here.
