Be careful about calling someone bald head

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“And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught and the ground barren. And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they bring it to him. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. 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 at them, and cursed them in the naame of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two chlidren of them. And he went from thence th Mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria (2 kings 2:19-25)
So, don't call someone “Bald head”, lest two she-bears eat you.
Actually, I think there is something that gets “lost in translation”, here. My French Bible says “children”, the KJV I just used says boys, as does my ESVCE. And, according to this, the word used can, at least in the context, mean “youth”.? 2 Kings 2 ?
Notice something though? While Elisha did curse the youths, there's nothing really in the text that would indicate that the she-bears were a punishment from God (though, they could be).
Let's take this into consideration, what was going on at the time? Well, the land was barren, which would mean that the bear (probably a brown bear), would have no food. Brown bears are omnivores, but, if the land is barren, then this would also mean the bear's food was starving or desiccated.
In other words, the she-bear didn't kill strictly because Elisha cursed these boys in God's name, but, because she was hungry.
Note that she was a she-bear. It seems likely to me that she had cubs if she needed that much food. And you might point out that she's a mammal and lactates, and I would point out, how exactly do you think that happens?
Lactation is very much something that needs a lot of energy, and therefore, a lot of food (a friendly reminder that calories are units of energy).
And, just for fun, we'll use the Septuagint, as it turns out, and this is what this says, the word that the Septuagint uses, can mean boy PAIDAS, but, it can also mean, children, servant, or slave.
I don't have an anti-supernatural bias, so, I have no problem believing that both things can be a true. It happened because a bear was hungry, and it was a curse from God.
Time doesn't permit me to do the research I would like to, but, Trent Horn has some excellent stuff on this, here; My Take on Bible Scholar Dan McClellan.

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