22. Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke.
23. Then he went up from there to Bethel; as he was going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, “Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!”
24. When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them.
25. Then he went from there to Mount Carmel and from there he returned to Samaria.