2 Kgs 2:23

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Beth-el.

1Kgs 12:28-32; Hos 4:15; Hos 10:5; Hos 10:15; Amos 3:14; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5; Amos 7:13

little children.

The words {n��im ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {n��} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {n��} 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; Job 30:1; Job 30:8-31; Prov 20:11; Prov 22:6; Prov 22:15; Eccl 11:10; Isa 1:4; Isa 3:5 Jer 7:18

mocked.

Gen 21:9; 2Chr 36:16; Job 30:1; Job 30:8; Job 30:9; Ps 35:15; Isa 57:3; Isa 57:4; Gal 4:29

Heb 11:36

Go up.

2Kgs 2:11; Matt 27:29-31; Matt 27:40-43