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Bears in the Bible - a Christian perspective


In this story, a band of young men pays a terrible price for mocking a prophet of God--they are attacked by wild animals.
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2 Kings 2:23-25 (KJV)

 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.…

One Comment

  1. chas47 says:
    December 11, 2009 at 11:21 am

    From this incident we learn that it is not good for anyone to mock God by dipising His servant. It seems as though we can curse God and even mock him openly, but don’t be doing such to His servants. Retribution isn’t always a couple of she bears…disease, worms, etc are not uncommon. If God’s servant is guilty of some missuse of office, God will deal with him/her directly.
    It’s not a healthy direction to challenge God’s Authority He has delegated to His servants.

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