Post by gsmithb on Aug 29, 2014 3:02:45 GMT
Barnes Notes states on verse 24-25" on this occasion only do we find Elisha a minister of vengeance. Perhaps it was necessary to show, at the outset of his career as a prophet, that he too, so mild and peaceful could like Elijah, wield the terrors of God's judgements. The person's really punished were, not so much the children, as the wicked parents whose mouth-pieces the children were, who justly lost the gift of offsprings of which they had shown themselves unworthy."
We once read that these could have been young adults.
We once read that these could have been young adults.