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2 Chronicles 21:15
15You yourself will be struck with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease.”
2 Chronicles 21:15 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.’ ”
- English Standard Version (ESV)and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.'"
- New King James Version (NKJV)and you will become very sick with a disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
Context of 2 Chronicles 21:15
13but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves like the house of Ahab prostituted itself, and also have killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you, 14the Lord is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction. You yourself will be struck with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease.” 16The Lord roused the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Cushites to attack Jehoram. 17So they went to war against Judah and invaded it. They carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace and also his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 212 Chronicles 21:15 word by word
וְאַתָּ֛ה בָּחֳלָיִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים בְּמַחֲלֵ֣ה מֵעֶ֑יךָ עַד־יֵצְא֤וּ מֵעֶ֙יךָ֙ מִן־הַחֹ֔לִי יָמִ֖ים עַל־יָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 21:15
- 2 Chronicles 21:18After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
- Numbers 5:27“When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her to cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, and her womb will shrivel. She will become a curse among her people.
- Deuteronomy 28:61The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
- Acts 12:23At once an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Psalms 109:18He wore cursing like his coat — let it enter his body like water and go into his bones like oil.
- Acts 1:18Now this man acquired a field with his unrighteous wages. He fell headfirst, his body burst open and his intestines spilled out.
- Deuteronomy 28:27“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 21:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Until thy bowels fall out - This must have been occasioned by a violent inflammation: by the same death perished Antiochus Epiphanes, and Herod Agrippa.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-20Verses 12-20 A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram's crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly ruin him. But no marvel that sinners are not frightened from sin, and to repentance, by the threatenings of misery in another world, when the certainty of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates, and the ruin of their health, will not…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-15Elijah the prophet wrote a letter to Jehoram, warning him of punishment for his disobedience.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1512-15. there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet--That prophet's translation having taken place in the reign of Jehoshaphat [2Ki 2:11, 12], we must conclude that the name of Elijah has, by the error of a transcriber, been put for that of Elisha.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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