To: Ichneumon
Yeah, like that underdog bald man who won out over the two kids teasing him about his baldness, when the Lord sent a bear to rip the kids to shreds and helped him "win out". Zero points for context...100 points for originality...
To: Lurking2Long
Zero points for context
What context? It's a pretty clear and unpleasant passage. They weren't threatening him with violence, they were mearly teasing him for his baldness, and for that "transgression", God sent she-bears to tear forty-two of them to shreds.
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11/28/2004 7:58:48 PM PST by
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To: Lurking2Long
[Yeah, like that underdog bald man who won out over the two kids teasing him about his baldness, when the Lord sent a bear to rip the kids to shreds and helped him "win out".] Zero points for context...100 points for originality...
Okay, I'll bite -- exactly what "context" am I missing here?
So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children 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. And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria. -- 2 Kings 2:22-25
I did get the number of children wrong, though -- it was 42 kids torn up by the bears, not 2.
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