Jehoram of Judah Struck with Bowel Disease
- Dates
- 843 BC
Jehoram, a wicked king in Judah married to Athaliah the daughter of Ahab rules for 8 years and suffers several calamities because of his sin, including an incurable intestinal disease from which he dies. He is not mourned but buried in Jerusalem.
Bible passages
- 2 Chronicles 21:18-19
18 And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19 And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
Text of the King James Version.