English Standard Version
2 Chronicles 21:15
15and 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.'"
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.’ ”
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out.”
Context of 2 Chronicles 21:15
13but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father's house, who were better than you, 14behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, 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.'" 16And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians. 17And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no 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 21:18And after all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
- Numbers 5:27And when he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has broken faith with her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people.
- Deuteronomy 28:61Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.
- Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.
- Psalms 109:18He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
- Acts 1:18(Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.
- Deuteronomy 28:27The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
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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