Update: Kings 2
Occasionally, I may read something that I just have to share.
Quote:
2:22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.
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.
2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
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I’ve no doubt that Bible scholars will claim there’s more than meets the eye here — symbolism etc, mistranslation perhaps — but as a high school teacher with a bald patch that’s been expanding since my early 30s, I think I’ll read this one literally. You go Elisha! That’ll teach ‘em!
(I know this post has usurped the thread for Annie. Somehow, I think she might approve)