2 Chronicles 21:14

Bible in Basic English

Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the Lord is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction.

Hebrew Names Version
behold, the LORD will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

King James Version
Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

English Standard Version
behold, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

New Century Version
So now the Lord is about to punish your people, your children, wives, and everything you own.

New English Translation
So look, the Lord is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

Amplified Bible
behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great disaster;

New American Standard Bible
behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great plague;

World English Bible
behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Beholde, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy substance,

Legacy Standard Bible
behold, Yahweh is going to smite your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great calamity;

Berean Standard Bible
So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.

Contemporary English Version
Because you have done these terrible things, the Lord will severely punish the people in your kingdom, including your own family, and he will destroy everything you own.

Complete Jewish Bible
Because of all this, Adonai is going to strike your people with a terrible disease, also your children, your wives and everything you have.

Darby Translation
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,

Easy-to-Read Version
So now, the Lord will soon punish your people with terrible suffering. He will punish your children, your wives, and all your property.

George Lamsa Translation
Behold, the LORD will smite you with a great plague, together with your people, your children, your wives, and all your goods;

Good News Translation
As a result, the Lord will severely punish your people, your children, and your wives, and will destroy your possessions.

Lexham English Bible
behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

Literal Translation
behold, Jehovah shall strike with a great destruction among your people, and among your sons, and among your wives, and among all your goods;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, the LORDE shal smyte the wt a greate plage on thy people, on thy children & thy wyues, and on all thy substaunce.

American Standard Version
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, with a great plague will the Lorde smite thy folke, thy children, thy wyues, and all thy goods:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
behold, the LORD will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;

King James Version (1611)
Behold, with a great plague wil the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy goods.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
behold, the Lord shall smite thee with a great plague among thy people, and thy sons, and thy wives, and all thy store:

English Revised Version
behold, the LORD will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the Lord schal smyte thee with a greet veniaunce, and thi puple, and thi sones, and wyues, and al thi catel;

Update Bible Version
look, Yahweh will smite with a great plague your people, and your sons, and your wives, and all your substance;

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

New King James Version
behold, the LORD will strike your people with a serious affliction--your children, your wives, and all your possessions;

New Living Translation
So now the Lord is about to strike you, your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a heavy blow.

New Life Bible
So see, the Lord is going to send a bad disease upon your people, your sons, your wives, and all you have.

New Revised Standard
see, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
lo! Yahweh, is about to plague, with a great plague, thy people,-and thy children and thy wives, and all thy possessions;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

Revised Standard Version
behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

Young's Literal Translation
lo, Jehovah is smiting -- a great smiting -- among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity;

Contextual Overview

¹² And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah, ¹³ But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself: ¹⁴ Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours: ¹⁵ And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease. ¹⁶ Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram; ¹⁷ And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest. ¹⁸ And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well. ¹⁹ And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers. ²⁰ He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

plague: Heb. stroke, Leviticus 26:21

thy people: Many of the people had concurred in Jehoram's idolatry, and some of them must have been instruments in his base, unnatural murders; they were therefore joined in his punishment, and he suffered by the loss of his subjects. Hosea 5:11, Micah 6:16

thy children: Exodus 20:5

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 1:2 - was sick

Cross-References

Genesis 16:7
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.

Genesis 19:27
And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

Genesis 21:6
And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

Genesis 21:7
And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.

Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

Genesis 21:25
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

Genesis 21:31
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

Genesis 21:33
And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

Genesis 22:3
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people,.... They going into the same idolatry with himself willingly, at least great part of them, and therefore deserved to be smitten, and which would be a punishment to him:

and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods; which should be carried captive, as the event shows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The fulfillment of the threat is given in 2 Chronicles 21:16-17.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 21:14. Will the Lord smite — "The WORD of the Lord will send a great mortality." - Targum.