2 Kings 2:23

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And he went vp from thence vnto Bethel: And as he was going vp the way, there came litle children out of the citie, and mocked him, & saide vnto him: Go vp thou balde head, go vp thou balde head.

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  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his wordes, and misvsed his prophetes, vntill the wrath of the Lorde arose against his people, and till there was no remedie.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell.
  • Job 19:18 : 18 Yea, the young men despised me, and when I rose they spake euill vpon me.
  • Gen 21:9 : 9 Sara saw also the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian, whiche she had borne vnto Abraham, to be a mocker.
  • 1 Kgs 12:28-32 : 28 Wherupon the king toke counsel, and made two calues of golde, and sayd vnto them, It is muche for you to go vp to Hierusalem: Behold O Israel, these are thy goddes, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt. 29 And he set the one in Bethel, and the other set he in Dan. 30 And this thing turned to sinne: for the people went (because of the one) as farre as Dan. 31 And he made an house of hill aulters, and made priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui. 32 And Ieroboam made a feast the fyfteene day of the eyght moneth, lyke vnto the feast that is in Iuda, and offered on the aulter: And so did he in Bethel, to offer vnto the calues that he had made: And he put in Bethel the priestes of the hill aulters which he had made.
  • Job 30:8-9 : 8 They were the children of fooles and vyllaynes, which are more vile then the earth. 9 Now am I their song, & am become their yesting stocke. 10 They abhorre me and flee farre from me, and stayne my face with spittle. 11 Because God hath loosed my corde and humbled me, they haue loosed the bridle before me. 12 Upon my right hande ryse the young men against me, they haue hurt my feete, treading vpon me as vpon the wayes of their destruction. 13 My pathes haue they cleane marred, it was so easye for them to do me harme, that they needed no man to help them. 14 They fell vpon me, as it had ben the breaking in of waters, and came in by heapes to destroy me. 15 Feare is turned vpon me, and they pursue my soule as the wind, and my health passeth away as a cloude. 16 Therfore is my soule now powred out vpon me, and the dayes of my trouble haue taken hold vpon me. 17 My bones are pearsed through in the night season, and my sinewes take no rest. 18 For the vehemencie of sorowe is my garment chaunged, whiche compasseth me about as the coller of my coote. 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust. 20 When I crie vnto thee, thou doest not heare me: and though I stande before thee, yet thou regardest me not. 21 Thou art become myne enemie, and with thy violent hande thou takest part against me. 22 In times past thou diddest set me vp on hye, to be caried as it were aboue the wynde, but nowe hast thou geuen me a very sore fall. 23 Sure I am that thou wilt bryng me vnto death, euen to the lodging that is due vnto all men liuing. 24 Notwithstanding, thou wilt not stretch out thyne hand against him that is in the graue: shal men crie out against him that is in destruction? 25 Dyd not I weepe with hym that was in trouble? Had not my soule compassion vpon the poore? 26 Yet neuerthelesse, where as I loked for good, euyll came vnto me: & where I wayted for light, there came darkenesse. 27 My bowels seethe in me without rest, for the dayes of my trouble are come vpon me. 28 I went mourning without heate, I stoode vp in the congregation, & communed with them. 29 But nowe I am a brother of dragons, and a felowe of Estriches. 30 My skinne vpon me is turned to blacke, and my bones are brent with heate. 31 My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.
  • Ps 35:15 : 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioysed and gathered them together: yea, the very abiectes came together against me, yer I wyst they rented me a peeces and ceassed not.
  • Prov 20:11 : 11 A chylde is knowen by his conuersation, whether his workes be pure and right.
  • Prov 22:6 : 6 Teache a chylde what way he should go: for he shall not leaue it when he is olde.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishnes is bounde in the heart of the chylde: and the rodde of correction shall driue it away.
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Put away displeasure out of thine heart, and remoue euill from thy body: for chyldhood and youth is but vanitie.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinnefull nation, a people laden with iniquitie, a seede of the wicked, corrupt children: they haue forsaken the Lorde, they haue prouoked the holy one of Israel vnto anger, they are gone backwarde.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people shall eche one of them violently oppresse another, and euery one agaynst his neyghbour: The boy shall presume agaynst the elder, and the person of lowe degree agaynst the honorable.
  • Isa 57:3-4 : 3 Come hyther therfore ye charmers children, ye sonnes of the adulterer and the whore. 4 Wherin take ye your pleasure? vpon whom gape ye with your mouth, and bleare out your tongue? Are ye not children of transgression, and a seede of dissimulation?
  • Jer 7:18 : 18 The chyldren gather stickes, the fathers kindle the fire, the wome kneade the dough to bake cakes for the queene of heauen: they powre out drinke offeringes vnto straunge gods, to prouoke me vnto wrath.
  • Hos 4:15 : 15 Though thou Israel play the harlot, yet let not Iuda sinne, come not ye vnto Gilgal, neither go ye to Bethauen, neither sweare ye, The Lorde liueth.
  • Hos 10:5 : 5 They that dwell in Samaria shall feare because of the Calfe of Bethauen, for the people therof shall mourne ouer it, yea and the priestes also reioyced on it for the glorie therof, because it is departed from it.
  • Hos 10:15 : 15 Euen so shall Bethel do vnto you because of your malitious wickednesse: in a mornyng shall the king of Israel be destroyed.
  • Amos 3:14 : 14 That in the day that I shall visite the transgressions of Israel vpon hym, I wil also visite the aulters of Bethel, and the hornes of the aulter shalbe broken of, and fall to the grounde.
  • Amos 4:4 : 4 Come to Bethel, and transgresse: to Gilgal, and multiplie transgression: and bring your sacrifices in the morning, and your tythes after three yeres.
  • Amos 5:5 : 5 But seke not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and go not to Beerseba: for Gilgal shall go into captiuitie, and Bethel shall come to naught.
  • Amos 7:13 : 13 But prophecie no more at Bethel: for it is the kinges chappell, & it is the kinges court.
  • Matt 27:29-31 : 29 And platted a crowne of thornes, and put vppon his head, and a reede in his right hande, and bowed the knee before hym, and mocked hym, saying: Hayle kyng of the Iewes. 30 And when they had spyt vpon hym, they toke the reede, and smote hym on the head. 31 And after that they had mocked him, they toke the robe of hym agayne, and put his owne rayment on hym, and led hym away, to crucifie hym.
  • Matt 27:40-43 : 40 And saying: Thou that destroyedst the temple, & buyldest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe. If thou be the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse. 41 Lykewyse also the hye priestes, mockyng hym, with the scribes, and elders, and pharisees sayde: 42 He saued other, hym selfe can he not saue. If he be the kyng of Israel, let him nowe come downe from the crosse, and we wyll beleue hym. 43 He trusted in God, let hym delyuer hym nowe, yf he wyll haue hym: for he sayde, I am the sonne of God.
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then he that was borne after the fleshe, persecuted hym that was borne after the spirite: euen so is it now.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 And others were tryed with mockynges, and scourgynges: Yea, moreouer with bondes and prisonment:
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 And it fortuned, that as they went walking and talking: beholde, there appeared a charet of fyre, and horses of fyre, & parted them both a sunder, and Elias went vp through the whorle winde into heauen.

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  • 2 Kgs 2:24-25
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    24And he turned backe, and loked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lorde: And there came two shee beares out of the wood, and tare fourtie and two children of them.

    25And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he turned againe to Samaria.

  • 2 Kgs 2:22
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  • Isa 15:2
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    2Moab went vp to the idols house, euen to Dibon to the hygh places to weepe: for Neba and Moab shall mourne for Medba, All their heades were balde, and all their beardes shauen.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31-32
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    31Then he sayd: God do so & more also to me, if the head of Elisa the sonne of Saphat shall stande on him this day.

    32But Elisa sate in his house (& the elders sate by him) And the king sent a man before him: but yer the messenger came to him, he sayd to the elders: haue ye not seene howe that the sonne of this murtherer hath sent to take away myne head? Be circumspect when the messenger commeth, and shut the doore, and hold him at the doore: Is not the sound of his maisters feete behynde him?

  • 2 Kgs 1:3-9
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    3But the angell of the Lorde spake to Elias the Thesbite: Arise, and go vp against the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say vnto them: Is there not a God in Israel, that ye go to aske counsel at Beelzebub the God of Ekrom?

    4Wherefore thus saith the Lorde: Thou shalt not come downe fro the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt die the death. And Elias departed.

    5And when the messengers turned backe againe vnto him, he saide vnto them: Why are ye now come againe?

    6They aunswered him: There came a man vp against vs, and sayde vnto vs: Go, & turne againe vnto the king that sent you, and saye vnto him, thus saith the Lorde: Is there not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquyre of Beelzebub the God of Ekrom? Therefore thou shalt not come downe from the bed on which thou art gone vp, but shalt dye the death.

    7And he said vnto them: What maner of man was that which came vp and met you, and tolde you these wordes?

    8And they aunswered him: It was an heery man, and girt with a girdell of leather about his loynes. And he saide: It is Elias the Thesbite.

    9Then the king sent vnto him a captayne ouer fiftie, with his fiftie men: which came to him (and beholde he sat on the top of an hill) And he spake vnto him, Thou man of God, the king hath saide: come downe.

  • 1 Kgs 18:27
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    27And at noone Elias mocked them, and sayde: Crye lowde, for he is a God, peraduenture he is talking, or occupied in folowing vpon his enemies, or is in his iourney, or happyly he slepeth, and must be awaked with your crie.

  • 2 Kgs 2:1-3
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    1And it chaunced, that whe the Lord would take vp Elias into heauen by a whorle wind, Elias went with Elisa from Gilgal.

    2And Elias saide vnto Elisa: Tary here I praye thee, for the Lorde hath sent me to Bethel. Elisa saide vnto him: As the Lorde lyueth, and as thy soule liueth, I will not leaue thee. And they came downe to Bethel,

    3And the children of the prophetes that were at Bethel came out to Elisa, and saide vnto him: knowest thou not how that the Lord wyll take away thy maister from thy head this day? He saide: I knowe it also, holde you your peace.

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    16Make thee baulde, and shaue thee because of thy tender children: make thee cleane baulde as an Egle, for they shalbe caried away captiue from thee.

  • 2 Kgs 2:13-18
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    13He toke vp also the mantell of Elias that fell from him, and went backe againe, and stoode by Iordanes syde.

    14And toke the mantel of Elias that fel from him, and smote the waters, & he said: Where is the Lord God of Elias, & he him selfe? And when he had smitten the waters, they parted this waye and that waye: and Elisa went ouer.

    15And when the childre of the prophetes which were at Iericho sawe him from a farre, they sayde, The spirite of Elias doth rest on Elisa: And they came to meete him, and fel to the grounde before him,

    16And saide vnto him: See, now there be with thy seruauntes fiftie strong men, let the go we pray thee & seeke thy maister: yf happly the spirite of the Lorde hath taken him vp, and cast him vpon some mountaine, or into some valley. And he saide: Ye shall send none.

    17And when they laye vpon him tyll he was ashamed, he said: Send. They sent therefore fiftie men, which sought him three dayes, but found him not.

    18And when they came againe to him (which taryed at Iericho) he saide vnto them: Did I not saye vnto you, that ye should not go?

  • 2 Kgs 4:18-19
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    18And when the childe was growen, it fell on a day that he went out to his father, and to the reapers,

    19And he said vnto his father: My head, my head. And he saide to a lad: Cary him to his mother.

  • 1 Kgs 13:10-12
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    10And so he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.

    11And there dwelt an olde prophet in Bethel, and his sonnes came and tolde him al the workes that the man of God had done that day in Bethel, and the wordes which he had spoken vnto the king tolde they their father also.

    12And their father sayde vnto them: What way went he? And his sonnes shewed him what way the man of God went which came from Iuda.

  • 2 Kgs 1:15
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    15And the angell of the Lorde saide vnto Elias: Go downe with him, and be not afrayde of him. And he arose, and went downe with him vnto the king.

  • 2 Kgs 4:29
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    29Then he saide to Gehezi: Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thyne hande, and go thy way: If thou meete any man salute him not: And if any salute thee, aunswere him not againe: And lay my staffe vpon the face of the childe.

  • 2 Kgs 6:18
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    18And when they came downe to him, Elisa prayed vnto the Lord, and sayde: Smyte this people I pray thee with blindnesse. And he smote them with blindnesse, according to the worde of Elisa.

  • 2 Kgs 10:12
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    12And he arose, & departed, and came to Samaria: And when Iehu was in the way of the house where the sheepheardes dyd sheare their sheepe,

  • Num 23:7
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    7And he toke vp his parable, and sayd: Balac the king of Moab hath brought me fro Mesopotamia, out of the mountaynes of the east, saying Come, curse Iacob for my sake, come and defie Israel.

  • 2 Chr 30:10
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    10And so the postes went from citie to citie in the lande of Ephraim & Manasse, euen vnto Zabulon: but they laughed them to scorne, and mocked them.

  • 1 Sam 9:11
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    11And as they went their way vp the hil to the citie, they met with damosels that came out to drawe water, and sayd vnto them: Is there here a Seer?

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    38So the prophete went foorth, & wayted for the king by the way, and put him selfe out of knowledge with ashes whiche he layed vpon his face.

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    31Gehezi went before them, and layed the staffe vpon the face of the childe, but ther was neither voyce nor any feeling: wherfore he went againe to meete him, and tolde him, saying: The childe is not awaked.

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    11Againe also he sent vnto him an other captaine ouer fiftie, with his fiftie: And he spake and saide vnto him, O man of God, thus hath the king saide: Make haste, and come downe.

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    14And so he departed from Elisa, & came to his maister: which sayd to him, What sayde Elisa to thee? He aunswered: He tolde me, that thou shouldest recouer.

  • 1 Sam 19:23
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    23And he went thyther euen to Naioth in Rama, and the spirite of God came vpon him also, and he went prophecying vntill he came to Naioth in Rama.

  • 1 Kgs 19:20
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    20And he left the oxen, and ranne after Elias, and sayde: Let me I pray thee kysse my father and my mother, & then I will folowe thee. He sayde vnto him: Go backe againe, for what is it that I haue done to thee?

  • 2 Kgs 4:23
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    23And he saide: Wherefore wylt thou go to him? seing that to day is neither newe moone nor sabbath day. And she aunswered: All shalbe well.

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
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    17Then he saide: What title is that that I see? And the men of the citie tolde him: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Iuda, and tolde the selfe same thinges that thou hast done to the aulter of Bethel.

  • Isa 22:12
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    12And in that day dyd the Lorde God of hoastes call men vnto weepyng and mournyng, to baldnesse and girdyng about with sackcloth.

  • 2 Kgs 2:11
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    11And it fortuned, that as they went walking and talking: beholde, there appeared a charet of fyre, and horses of fyre, & parted them both a sunder, and Elias went vp through the whorle winde into heauen.

  • 1 Kgs 17:19-20
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    19He saide vnto her: geue me thy sonne. And he toke him out of her lap, & caried him vp into a loft where he abode, and layde him vpon his owne bed:

    20And called vnto the Lorde, and saide: O Lorde my God, hast thou punished also this wydow with whom I dwell as a straunger, & hast slaine her sonne?

  • Num 23:13
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    13And Balac sayde vnto hym: Come I pray thee with me vnto another place, whence thou mayest see them, and thou shalt see but the vtmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: curse them out of that place for my sake.

  • 2 Sam 16:13
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    13And as Dauid and his men went by the way, Semei went along on the hilles syde ouer against him, & cursed as he went, and threwe stones at him, and cast duste.