1 Kings 13:4

he put forth his hand from the altar He was busy in the operations connected with the sacrifice, but the words of the prophet roused his anger, and the raised hand is the sign of his wrath, as well as a signal to those who were near him, pointing out that the speaker was to be seized. Hence it is said immediately -which he put forth against him." The R.V. has observed the order of the Hebrew in which the proper name Jeroboam comes in the second clause of the verse and not in the first: thus -when the king heard … Jeroboam put forth, &c."

dried up The effect described is that of a limb becoming rigid, not so much shrivelling, as stiffening. Josephus says it was -numbed and dead".