Bethel: 1Ki 12:28-32, Hos 4:15, Hos 10:5, Hos 10:15, Amo 3:14, Amo 4:4, Amo 5:5, Amo 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, Pro 20:11, Pro 22:6, Pro 22:15, Ecc 11:10, Isa 1:4, Isa 3:5, Jer 7:18 mocked: Gen 21:9, 2Ch 36:16, Job 30:1, Job 30:8, Job 30:9, Psa 35:15, Isa 57:3, Isa 57:4, Gal 4:29, Heb 11:36 Go up: 2Ki 2:11, Mat 27:29-31, Mat 27:40-43 Reciprocal: 1Ki 19:17 - Elisha slay 2Ki 1:10 - If I be a man Jer 20:7 - I am 2Co 13:8 - General