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2 Chronicles 21:15

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.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Bowels;   Disease;   Elijah;   Jehoram;   Thompson Chain Reference - Disease;   Elijah;   Health-Disease;   Sickness;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions of the Wicked, the;   Diseases;   Kings;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Joram or Jehoram;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jehoram;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Elijah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Writing;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Flux, Bloody;   Jerusalem;   Obadiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Dysentery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joram, Jehoram;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Athaliah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Eli'jah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostasy;   Bloody Flux;   Elijah;   Writing;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Demonology;   Plague;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
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.”
Hebrew Names Version
and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
King James Version
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
English Standard Version
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 Century Version
You will have a terrible disease in your intestines that will become worse every day. Finally it will cause your intestines to come out."
New English Translation
And you will get a serious, chronic intestinal disease which will cause your intestines to come out."
Amplified Bible
and you will suffer a severe illness, an intestinal disease, until your intestines come out because of the sickness, day after day.'"
New American Standard Bible
and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"
World English Bible
and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And thou shalt be in great diseases in the disease of thy bowels, vntill thy bowels fall out for the disease, day by day.
Legacy Standard Bible
and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"
Berean Standard Bible
And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.'"
Contemporary English Version
You will be struck with a painful stomach disease and suffer until you die.
Complete Jewish Bible
You will be very ill from a disease in your intestines, until your intestines protrude, because of the effects of this disease, day after day.'"
Darby Translation
and thyself with sore sicknesses, with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
Easy-to-Read Version
You will have a painful sickness in your intestines that will get worse and worse. Your intestines will finally come out.'"
George Lamsa Translation
And you yourself shall die with a severe sickness; and you shall be consumed with a great torment until your bowels fall out because of your sickness. And you shall be tormented for many years.
Good News Translation
You yourself will suffer a painful intestinal disease that will grow worse day by day."
Lexham English Bible
and you yourself will be afflicted with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'"
Literal Translation
and you, with many sicknesses, with disease in your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But thou thy selfe shalt haue moch sicknesse in thy bowels, tyll thy bowels go forth from daye to daye for very disease.
American Standard Version
and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And thou shalt suffer great payne, euen a disease of thy bowels, vntill thy guttes fall out, by reason of thy sicknes day by day.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt haue great sicknesse by disease of thy bowels, vntil thy bowels fall out, by reason of the sickenesse day by day.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and thou shalt be afflicted with a grievous disease, with a disease of the bowels, until thy bowels shall fall out day by day with the sickness.
English Revised Version
and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sotheli thou schalt be sijk `with the worste sorewe of wombe, til thin entrailis go out litil and litil bi ech dai.
Update Bible Version
and you with many sicknesses by disease of your insides, until your insides fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
Webster's Bible Translation
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 King James Version
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
You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out."
New Life Bible
You yourself will suffer a bad sickness, a disease of your stomach. Your insides will come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"
New Revised Standard
and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out, day after day, because of the disease."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
also, thyself, with sore diseases, with disease of thy bowels,-until thy bowels shall fall out, by reason of the disease, in a year added to a year.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.
Revised Standard Version
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.'"
Young's Literal Translation
and thou, with many sicknesses, with disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels come out, by the sickness, day by day.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"

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

by disease: This is supposed to have been a violent dysentery, a disease which is often attended with symptoms similar to those described in the text; by the same death perished Antiochus Ephiphenes, and Herod Agrippa. 2 Chronicles 21:18, 2 Chronicles 21:19, Numbers 5:27, Deuteronomy 28:61, Acts 12:23

thy bowels fall: Psalms 109:18, Acts 1:18

the sickness: 2 Chronicles 21:18, Deuteronomy 28:27, Deuteronomy 28:37, Deuteronomy 28:59, Deuteronomy 28:67

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:21 - rot 2 Kings 1:2 - was sick Zechariah 14:12 - Their flesh Revelation 16:2 - a noisome

Cross-References

Genesis 21:1
And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.
Genesis 21:3
And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
Genesis 21:14
And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:22
Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.
Genesis 21:25
But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.
Isaiah 44:12
The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,.... Which was a just retaliation to him, for having no bowels of compassion on his brethren whom he slew:

until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day; that continuing day after day, and even year after year, the space of two years, as appears from 2 Chronicles 21:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 21:15. Until thy bowels fall out — This must have been occasioned by a violent inflammation: by the same death perished Antiochus Epiphanes, and Herod Agrippa.


 
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