열왕기하 2:23 KRV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 2:23

2 Kings 2:23. He went up from thence unto Beth-el To the other school of the prophets, to inform them of Elijah’s translation, and his succession to the same office; and to direct, and comfort, and establish them, as he saw occasion. And there came forth little children The word נערים , negnarim, here rendered children, often evidently signifies, and is translated, young men, or lads, as Genesis 22:5; Genesis 22:12; Genesis 41:12; Genesis 43:8; 2 Chronicles 13:7, and that even... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

1:1-8:15 MINISTRY OF ELISHAElijah succeeded by Elisha (1:1-2:25)Ahab’s son Ahaziah had not reigned long when he was injured in a fall. When he sent messengers to ask foreign gods whether he would recover, Elijah met them along the way. He sent them back with a message that the king would die, because he had forsaken the true God for foreign gods (1:1-10). Ahaziah sent soldiers to arrest Elijah, apparently with the intention of killing him because of his bold words. The ungodly king lost a... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 2:23

Beth-el. One of the seats of Israel's calf-worship (1 Kings 12:26-30 ). little children = young men. Hebrew. na'ar. Used of Isaac (twenty-eight years old); Joseph (thirty-nine); Rehoboam (forty). Go up, &c. An open insult, avenged by Elisha ' s God in a way suited for that dispensation, though not for this. "Go up" may have referred to Elijah's translation; and thus, a blasphemous insult outraging Jehovah's own act. bald head. Baldness premature. Elisha lived fifty years longer (2... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:23

GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON A GANG OF WICKED YOUTHS "And he went up from thence unto Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said; Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead. And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two of them. And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.""There came forth... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 2:23-24

2 Kings 2:23-24. There came forth little children, &c.— Young lads. In order to rescue the character of the prophet from the objections of infidels on account of the catastrophe of these children, we may observe, that it appears from other passages of Scripture, (as Genesis 43:8. 1 Kings 3:7; 1 Kings 3:28.) that the persons termed little children, were grown to the age of maturity, and consequently were capable of being concerned in any riotous proceedings. Nay, their coming out of the city... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 2:23

23, 24. there came forth little children out of the city—that is, the idolatrous, or infidel young men of the place, who affecting to disbelieve the report of his master's translation, sarcastically urged him to follow in the glorious career. bald head—an epithet of contempt in the East, applied to a person even with a bushy head of hair. The appalling judgment that befell them was God's interference to uphold his newly invested prophet. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 2:15-25

The evidence of Elisha’s succession 2:15-25Had Elijah still been alive on the earth, Elisha could not have exercised authority as his successor. In this chapter there are parallels between the succession of the prophets and the succession of the kings that the writer recorded elsewhere in Kings. Elisha gave the skeptics opportunity to verify Elijah’s departure (cf. 1 Kings 18:12). After all, Elijah had been known to disappear and reappear suddenly (cf. 1 Kings 18:12). The same Spirit that had... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Elijah’s Translation to HeavenThe great service rendered to Israel by the prophet whose life is here closed was the stand which he made for the religion of Jehovah when its supremacy was threatened by the worship of the Zidonian Baal introduced by Jezebel. In view of such a crisis, the degradation of Jehovah’s worship by the association with it of the golden calves set up by Jeroboam could for a while be ignored, a superstitious form of the true faith being preferable to total apostasy; though... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:19-25

(19-25) Elisha, as prophet, heals the waters of Jericho, and curses the scorners of Beth-el. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:23

(23) Went up.—From Jericho, in the plain, Elisha goes now to visit the prophetic community established at Beth-el, the chief seat of the illicit cultus.By the way.—The way par excellence; the highroad leading directly up to the gates of the town.Little children.—Young boys (or, lads). Na’ar is not used rhetorically here, as in 1 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 13:7. The boys who mocked Elisha might be of various ages, between six or seven years and twenty. “Little children” would not be likely to... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Kings 2:23

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Kings 2:1-25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Kings 2:23

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:23

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Kings 2:23-24

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Kings 2:23

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 2 Kings 2:15-25

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Kings 2:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:19-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 2 Kings 2:23

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