2 Kings 2:24
Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the Lord. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
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.
He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the Lord’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of those youths.
And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- cursed them
- 2 Kings 1:10–12; Genesis 9:25; Deuteronomy 28:15–26; Judges 9:20, 57; Jeremiah 28:16; Jeremiah 29:21–23; Lamentations 3:65; Amos 7:17; Mark 11:14, 21; Acts 5:5, 9; Acts 8:20; Acts 13:9–11; 2 Corinthians 10:6
- she bears
- 2 Samuel 17:8; Proverbs 17:12; Proverbs 28:15; Hosea 13:8
- children of them
- Exodus 20:5; 1 Kings 13:24; 1 Kings 19:17; 1 Kings 20:36