^{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.

^{6 Ref} Then the king made answer and said to the man of God, Make a prayer now for the grace of the Lord your God, and for me, that my hand may be made well. And in answer to the prayer of the man of God, the king's hand was made well again, as it was before.