2Ki 2:23-24, 2Ch 30:10, 36:16, Neh 4:1-5, Job 30:1, Psa 22:6, 42:10 | TSK | STEP | Beth-el. little children.The words {nëârim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {näâr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {näâr} when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed. mocked. Go up.

2 Kings 2:23-24

Beth-el.

1Ki 12:28-32; Ho 4:15; 10:5,15; Am 3:14; 4:4; 5:5; 7:13

little children.The words {nëârim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {näâr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {näâr} when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed.

Job 19:18; 30:1,8-31; Pr 20:11; 22:6,15; Ec 11:10; Isa 1:4; 3:5

Jer 7:18

mocked.

Ge 21:9; 2Ch 36:16; Job 30:1,8,9; Ps 35:15; Isa 57:3,4; Ga 4:29

Heb 11:36

Go up.

11; Mt 27:29-31,40-43

cursed them.

1:10-12; Ge 9:25; De 28:15-26; Jud 9:20,57; Jer 28:16; 29:21-23

La 3:65; Am 7:17; Mr 11:14,21; Ac 5:5,9; 8:20; 13:9-11; 2Co 10:6

she bears.

2Sa 17:8; Pr 17:12; 28:15; Ho 13:8