2 Kings 2:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

Beth-el

Amos 7:13

Little children

Jeremiah 7:18

Mocked

Hebrews 11:36

Go up

2 Kings 2:11

Matthew 27:29

General references

2 Corinthians 13:8

Bible References

Beth-el

So the king sought some advice and then built two golden calves and announced, "It's too difficult for you to travel to Jerusalem. So here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!"

"Even though you prostitute yourself, Israel let not Judah incur guilt don't go to Gilgal, or visit Beth-aven, or swear an oath using the LORD's name.

"The residents of Samaria will be terrified because of the cows of Beth-aven. Its people will mourn over Beth-aven, along with the priests who will mourn its glory, because that glory has departed.

"because on that day I will lay out the charges against Israel. I will also bring judgment upon the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and will fall to the ground.

"Come to Bethel and sin, to Gilgal and sin even more! Bring along your morning sacrifices, and pay your tithes every other day.

but don't seek Bethel. Don't go to Gilgal, and don't pass over to Beer-sheba. Because Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel will come to nothing.

Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because it's the king's sanctuary and a temple of the kingdom."

Little children

Even little children hate me; when I get up, they mock me.

Even a child is known by his actions, whether his deeds are pure and right.

Train a child in the way appropriate for him, and when he becomes older, he will not turn from it.

Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.

"Oh, you sinful nation! You people burdened down by iniquity! You offspring of those who keep practicing what is evil! You corrupt children! "They've abandoned the LORD; they've despised the Holy One of Israel; in their estrangement, they've walked away from me.

People will oppress one another It will be man against man and neighbor against neighbor. The young will be disrespectful to the old, and the worthless to the honorable.

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, and they pour out liquid offerings to other gods in order to provoke me.

Mocked

Nevertheless, when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom Hagar had borne to Abraham making fun of Isaac,

but they mocked God's messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until there was no remedy for the wrath of the LORD that arose to punish his people.

"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop.

"But as for you, come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

Still others endured taunts and floggings, and even chains and imprisonment.

Go up

As they continued on, talking as they went, suddenly chariots blazing with fire and pulled by fiery horses appeared, separated the two of them, and Elijah ascended in a wind storm to heaven!

Twisting some thorns into a victor's crown, they placed it on his head and put a stick in his right hand. They knelt down in front of him and began making fun of him, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

General references

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.