2 Kings 2:3

2:3 Some members of the prophetic guild 1  in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that today the Lord is going to take your master from you?” 2  He answered, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

2 Kings 2:23

2:23 He went up from there to Bethel. 3  As he was traveling up the road, some young boys 4  came out of the city and made fun of him, saying, “Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”

2 Kings 23:17

23:17 He asked, “What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied, “It’s the grave of the prophet 5  who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”

2 Kings 23:19

23:19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the Lord. 6  He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel. 7 

1 tn Heb “the sons of the prophets.”

2 tn Heb “from your head.” The same expression occurs in v. 5.

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4 tn The word נַעַר (na’ar), here translated “boy,” can refer to a broad age range, including infants as well as young men. But the qualifying term “young” (or “small”) suggests these youths were relatively young. The phrase in question (“young boy”) occurs elsewhere in 1 Sam 20:35; 1 Kgs 3:7 (used by Solomon in an hyperbolic manner); 11:17; 2 Kgs 5:14; and Isa 11:6.

5 tn Heb “man of God.”

6 tc Heb “which the kings of Israel had made, angering.” The object has been accidentally omitted in the MT. It appears in the LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate versions.

7 tn Heb “and he did to them according to all the deeds he had done in Bethel.”

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