# Biblical trash talking

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**Created:** [August 22, 2025, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-trash-talking/1022404 "2025-08-22T20:43:36Z")
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#### Post date: [August 22, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biblical-trash-talking/1022404/4 "2025-08-22T21:15:00Z")

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Also from 2 Kings: Elisha gets revenge on some trash-talkers in the most badass way possible.

> 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.**
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> 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.

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