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

And having taken counsel, the king made two calves of gold and said unto the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah be guilty; and do not come unto Gilgal, neither go up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD lives,

The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn because of the calf, and the religious persons thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, which shall be made to vanish away.

that in the day that I shall visit the rebellions of Israel upon him, I will also visit upon the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground.

Go to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal increase the rebellion; and bring your sacrifices early in the morning and your tithes every three years:

but do not seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and do not pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

but do not prophesy any more in Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and the head of the kingdom.

Little children

Even the young children despised me; as I arose, they spoke against me.

Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work is pure and whether it is right.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh; for childhood and youth are vanity.

O sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, generation of evildoers, corrupt sons! They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger; they have turned back.

And the people shall do violence, one against another, and each one against his neighbour; the child shall rise up against the ancient and the base against the honourable.

The sons gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger.

Mocked

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his prophets until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together; yea, the smiters gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me apart and did not cease:

But come here, ye sons of the sorceress, generation of the adulterer and the whore.

But as then he that was born according to the flesh persecuted him that was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.

and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

Go up

And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked, that, behold, a chariot of fire with horses of fire separated the two, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head and a reed in his right hand; and they bowed the knee before him and mocked him, saying, Receive joy, King of the Jews!

General references

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.