2 Kings 2:23

As Elisha travels to Bethel, a crowd of youths mocks him, jeering "Go up, you baldy!" Their taunt contemptuously dismisses the prophet and possibly Elijah's ascension.

Cross-references · 28

• 2 Chr 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• Job 19:18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
• Job 30:1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
• Prov 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
• Gen 21:9And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
• Prov 20:11Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
• Eccl 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
• Job 30:8–31They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
• Jer 7:18The children 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.
• Isa 57:3–4But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
• Prov 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
• Ps 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
• Heb 11:36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
• Hos 10:15So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
• Matt 27:40–43And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Amos 5:5But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
• Isa 3:5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
• Matt 27:29–31And 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, Hail, King of the Jews!
• Hos 10:5The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
• Amos 7:13But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.
• Gal 4:29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
• Hos 4:15Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
• Amos 3:14That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
• Amos 4:4Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:
• 1 Kgs 12:28–32Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, 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.
• 2 Kgs 2:11And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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