Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead! So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Elisha had been given a double portion of the spirit of Elijah. He was even more of a miracle-worker than Elijah had been. He was God’s anointed. It is a dangerous thing to mess with God’s anointed. Soon-to-be King David knew better. These youths, sadly, did not.
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