20. He said, Bring me a new bowl and put salt [the symbol of God's purifying power] in it. And they brought it to him.
21. Then Elisha went to the spring of the waters and cast the salt in it and said, Thus says the Lord: I [not the salt] have healed these waters; there shall not be any more death, miscarriage or barrenness [and bereavement] because of it.
22. So the waters were healed to this day, as Elisha had said.
23. He went up from Jericho to Bethel. On the way, young [maturing and accountable] boys came out of the city and mocked him and said to him, Go up [in a whirlwind], you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!
24. And he turned around and looked at them and called a curse down on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and ripped up forty-two of the boys.
25. Elisha went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.