Can there be anyone who got off to a more rocky start with the people than Elisha? I mean, the guy had to take over for Elijah, who had just been swept up in a whirlwind and a chariot and horses of fire.
How are you going to top that? Elisha tried. He really did.
Within what looks like a few days after Elisha got the top job as prophet, he parted the Jordan River and healed the water in Jericho with salt.
But as he left the city, that's when the real trouble started.
2 Kings 2:23-24
"And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children [youths] out of the city and mocked him and said unto him, go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
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."
Yikes. Be nice to the prophet, kids, or else.
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