Verse 23

He went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Job 30:1 : 1 "But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
  • Job 19:18 : 18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
  • Gen 21:9 : 9 Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.
  • 1 Kgs 12:28-32 : 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt. 29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. 30 This thing became a sin; for the people went [to worship] before the one, even to Dan. 31 He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi. 32 Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
  • Job 30:8-9 : 8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land. 9 "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. 10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And don't hesitate to spit in my face. 11 For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; And they have thrown off restraint before me. 12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction. 13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help. 14 As through a wide breach they come, In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in. 15 Terrors are turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud. 16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me. 17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest. 18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me. 21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me. 22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm. 23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living. 24 "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? 25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy? 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness. 27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me. 28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. 29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. 30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat. 31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
  • Ps 35:15 : 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.
  • Prov 20:11 : 11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, Whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
  • Prov 22:6 : 6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
  • Prov 22:15 : 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: The rod of discipline drives it far from him.
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh; For youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Ah sinful nation, A people loaded with iniquity, A seed of evil-doers, Children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.
  • Isa 57:3-4 : 3 But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute. 4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
  • Jer 7:18 : 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
  • Hos 4:15 : 15 "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, Yet don't let Judah offend; And don't come to Gilgal, Neither go up to Beth Aven, Nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'
  • Hos 10:5 : 5 The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; For its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, For its glory, because it has departed from it.
  • Hos 10:15 : 15 So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
  • Amos 3:14 : 14 "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; And the horns of the altar will be cut off, And fall to the ground.
  • Amos 4:4 : 4 "Go to Bethel, and sin; To Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days,
  • Amos 5:5 : 5 But don't seek Bethel, Nor enter into Gilgal, And don't pass to Beersheba: For Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, And Bethel shall come to nothing.
  • Amos 7:13 : 13 but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
  • Matt 27:29-31 : 29 They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 30 They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head. 31 When they had mocked him, they took the robe off of him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
  • Matt 27:40-43 : 40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees,{TR omits "the Pharisees"} and the elders, said, 42 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
  • Gal 4:29 : 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.
  • Heb 11:36 : 36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
  • 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 It happened, as they still went on, and talked, that behold, [there appeared] a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both apart; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.