2 Kings 2:23

2Ki 2:23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

Ver. 23. And he went from thence unto Bethel. ] Which was now a place of strange composition; for there was at once the golden calf of Jeroboam, and the school of God. Physicians are of most use where diseases abound.

There came forth little children. ] Nuzzled up by their wicked parents in idolatry and contempt of a faithful ministry.

Go up, thou bald head. ] Or, Ascend, as they say - but who can think it? - thy master Elijah did. Thus these mistaught brats, and, because they had nothing worse to upbraid him with, they twit him with his baldness: loading that head with scorn which God had crowned with honour.