2Ki 2:23 | TSK | e4.org | Bethel ; , , ; , , , little children The words nearim ketannim not only signify little children but young men; for katon signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and naar signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity. Thus Isaac is called naar when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed. , , ; , , ; ; , ; mocked ; ; , ; ; ; ; Go up ; ,

‏ 2 Kings 2:23

Bethel 1Kgs 12:28-32; Hos 4:15, Hos 10:5, Hos 10:15; Amos 3:14, Amos 4:4, Amos 5:5, Amos 7:13

little children The words nearim ketannim not only signify little children but young men; for katon signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and naar signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity. Thus Isaac is called naar when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed. Job 19:18, Job 30:1, Job 30:8-31; Prov 20:11, Prov 22:6, Prov 22:15; Eccl 11:10; Isa 1:4, Isa 3:5; Jer 7:18

mocked Gen 21:9; 2Chr 36:16; Job 30:1, Job 30:8-9; Ps 35:15; Isa 57:3-4; Gal 4:29; Heb 11:36

Go up 2Kgs 2:11; Matt 27:29-31, Matt 27:40-43