^{4 Ref} Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

^{5 Ref} And the altar was broken and the burned waste on it overturned; this was the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.