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 scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• Job 19:18Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
• Job 30:1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
• Prov 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Gen 21:9Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
• Prov 20:11Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
• Eccl 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
• Job 30:8–31They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
• Jer 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
• Isa 57:3–4“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
• Prov 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Ps 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
• Heb 11:36Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
• Hos 10:15So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
• Matt 27:40–43and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”
• Amos 5:5but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
• Isa 3:5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
• Matt 27:29–31They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
• Hos 10:5The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.
• Amos 7:13but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
• Gal 4:29But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
• Hos 4:15“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’
• Amos 3:14“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.
• Amos 4:4“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
• 1 Kgs 12:28–32So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
• 2 Kgs 2:11As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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