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As Elisha went up to Bethel, some youths came out and mocked him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead!” Elisha turned back, cursed them in the name of the LORD, and two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of them. Then Elisha went on to Mount Carmel and returned to Samaria (2 Kings 2:23–25).
23He 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.
24He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. There came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and mauled forty-two lads of them.
25He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.