Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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 judgments (I Kings 19:19 note). The persons really punished were, not so much the children, as the wicked parents II Kings 2:23, whose mouth-pieces the children were, and who justly lost the gift of offspring of which they had shown themselves unworthy.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 2:24:
Proverbs 17:12
Isaiah 47:6
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