Bethel: 1 Kings 12:28-32; Hosea 4:15, Hosea 10:5, Hosea 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; Proverbs 20:11, Proverbs 22:6, Proverbs 22:15; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Isaiah 1:4, Isaiah 3:5; Jeremiah 7:18
mocked: Genesis 21:9; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Job 30:1, Job 30:8-9; Psalms 35:15; Isaiah 57:3-4; Galatians 4:29; Hebrews 11:36
Go up: 2 Kings 2:11; Matthew 27:29-31, Matthew 27:40-43