Discovery Box1 Kings 13:3-6 
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 13:4 When the king heard what the prophet 5 cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam, standing at the altar, extended his hand 6 and ordered, 7 “Seize him!” The hand he had extended shriveled up 8 and he could not pull it back. 13:5 The altar split open and the ashes 9 fell from the altar to the ground, 10 in fulfillment of the sign the prophet had announced with the Lord’s authority. 11 13:6 The king pled with 12 the prophet, 13 “Seek the favor of 14 the Lord your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored.” So the prophet sought the Lord’s favor 15 and the king’s hand was restored to its former condition. 16
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 man of God.”
6 tn Heb “Jeroboam extended his hand from the altar.”
7 tn Heb “saying.”
8 tn Heb “dried up” or “withered.” TEV and NLT interpret this as “became paralyzed.”
9 tn Heb “the fat.” Reference is made to burnt wood mixed with fat. See HALOT 234 s.v. דשׁן.
10 tn Heb “were poured out from the altar.”
11 tn Heb “according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the
12 tn Heb “The king answered and said to.”
13 tn Heb “the man of God” (a second time later in this verse, and once in v. 7 and v. 8).
14 tn Heb “appease the face of.”
15 tn Heb “appeased the face of the
16 tn Heb “and it was as in the beginning.”
