1 Kings 13:5

13:5 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 18:32

18:32 With the stones he constructed an altar for the Lord. 4  Around the altar he made a trench large enough to contain two seahs 5  of seed.

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 Lord.”

4 tn Heb “and he built the stones into an altar in the name of the Lord.”

5 tn A seah was a dry measure equivalent to about seven quarts.