2 Kings 2:16-25

2:16

capable <02428 01121> [strong men. Heb. sons of strength. the Spirit.]

[some mountain. Heb. one of the mountains.]

2:17

insistent <06484> [they urged.]

find <04672> [found him not.]

2:19

master ... see <07200 0113> [my Lord seeth.]

water <04325> [the water.]

crops <07921> [barren. Heb. causing to miscarry.]

2:20

Get ......... salt .... So ... got <04417 03947> [salt therein.]

2:21

threw <07993> [cast.]

purified <07495> [I have healed.]

death <04194> [there shall.]

2:23

Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]

young boys <06996 05288> [little children.]

The words {n‰ƒrim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {n„ƒr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {n„ƒr} 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.

made fun <07046> [mocked.]

went up ......... traveling up .................. Go on up ... Go on up <05927> [Go up.]

2:24

called ... judgment <07043 08034> [cursed them.]

bears <01677> [she bears.]

boys <03206> [children of them.]

2:25

Mount Carmel <03760 02022> [mount Carmel.]