2 Kings 2:23

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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 consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Though you, Israel, play the harlot,
Do not let Judah become guilty;
Also do not go to Gilgal,
Or go up to Beth-aven

And take the oath:

“As the Lord lives!”

The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the

calf of Beth-aven.

Indeed, its people will mourn for it,
And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it,
Over its glory, since it has departed from it.

“For on the day that I punish Israel’s transgressions,
I will also punish the altars of Bethel;
The horns of the altar will be cut off
And they will fall to the ground.

“Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

Your tithes every three days.

“But do not resort to Bethel
And do not come to Gilgal,
Nor cross over to Beersheba;
For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity
And Bethel will come to trouble.

But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence.”

Little children

“Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.

It is by his deeds that a lad

distinguishes himself

If his conduct is pure and right.

Train up a child in the way he should go,

Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away

pain from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,

Offspring of evildoers,

Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.

And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder
And the inferior against the honorable.

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me.

Mocked

Now Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham,

mocking.

but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The

smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,

They

slandered me without ceasing.

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,

Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also.

and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.

Go up

As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire which separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind to heaven.

And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

General references

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