2 Chronicles 21:15

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 way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful as the house of Ahab was unfaithful, and you have also killed your brothers, your own family, who were better than you, 14behold, the Lord is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great plague; and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’” 16Then the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who bordered the Ethiopians; 17and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king’s house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

2 Chronicles 21:15 word by word

וְאַתָּ֛ה בָּחֳלָיִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים בְּמַחֲלֵ֣ה מֵעֶ֑יךָ עַד־יֵצְא֤וּ מֵעֶ֙יךָ֙ מִן־הַחֹ֔לִי יָמִ֖ים עַל־יָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• severeרַבrab · manyH7227
• sicknessחֳלִיchŏlîy · sicknessH2483
• a diseaseמַחֲלֶהmachăleh machălâh · sicknessH4245
• of your bowelsמֵעֶהmê‛eh · bellyH4578
• untilעַד‛ad · tillH5704
• comeיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: issueH3318
• outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: issueH3318
• becauseמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 21:15

• 2 Chronicles 21:18So after all this the Lord struck him in his intestines with an incurable sickness.
• Numbers 5:27When he has made her drink the water, then it will come about, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings a curse will go into her and cause bitterness, and her belly will swell up and her thigh will shrivel, and the woman will become a curse among her people.
• Deuteronomy 28:61Also every sickness and every plague, which are not written in the book of this Law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.
• Acts 12:23And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Psalms 109:18But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, And it entered his body like water, And like oil into his bones.
• Acts 1:18(Now this man acquired a field with the price of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.
• Deuteronomy 28:27“The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, the festering rash, and with scabies, from 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

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 21:15

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Bowels
• Disease
• Elijah
• Jehoram

In the dictionaries

• Elijah
• Fornication
• Jehoram
• Revolt
• Writing
• Apostasy; Apostate
• Bloody Flux
• Jehoram; Joram

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