2 Chronicles 21:15
13 but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
14 So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.
And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
16 Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.
17 So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
- KJV
- And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
- WEB
- and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”
- ASV
- and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
- DARBY
- and thyself with sore sicknesses, with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
- BLB
- and you, with many sicknesses, with disease of your bowels, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, days upon days.’”
- ÅB
- Og selv skal du rammes av en svær sykdom, en sykdom i dine innvoller, så dine innvoller etter år og dag skal falle ut på grunn av sykdommen.
- OTB
- og du vil lide stor smerte fra en sykdom i dine innvoller, inntil dine innvoller kommer ut på grunn av sykdommen, dag for dag.’"
- B1930
- Og selv skal du rammes av en svær sykdom, en sykdom i dine innvoller, så dine innvoller efter år og dag skal falle ut på grunn av sykdommen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 21:18–19
After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
Read in contextActs 1:18
(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:27
The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
Read in contextPsalms 109:18
The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:59
He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
Read in contextNumbers 5:27
When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
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