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Bishop's Bible

2 Chronicles 21:14

Beholde, with a great plague will the Lorde smite thy folke, thy children, thy wyues, and all thy goods:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Disease;   Elijah;   Jehoram;   Polygamy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Elijah;   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 - Jerusalem;   Obadiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Medicine;   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 - Plague;  

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;
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:
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 there came a writing to him from Elia the prophete, saying, Thus sayth the Lord God of Dauid thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the wayes of Iehosaphat thy father, and in the wayes of Asa king of Iuda: 13 But walkedst in the wayes of the kinges of Israel, and hast made Iuda and the dwellers of Hierusalem to go a whoring like to the whordome of the house of Ahab, and hast slayne thy brethren, euen thy fathers house, whiche were better then thou: 14 Beholde, with a great plague will the Lorde smite thy folke, thy children, thy wyues, and all thy goods: 15 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. 16 And so the Lorde stirred vp against Iehoram the spirite of the Philistines, and the Arabians that were besyde the blacke Moores. 17 And they came vp into Iuda, and wasted it, & caried away all the substaunce that was found in the kinges house, and his sonnes, and his wyues: so that there was neuer a sonne left hym, saue Iehohahaz, which was the youngest among his sonnes. 18 And after all these thinges, the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19 And it came to passe, that in processe of time, euen after the ende of two yeres, his guttes fell out in his sicknes, and so he died of very euyll diseases: And they made no burning for him, lyke the burning of his fathers. 20 When he began to raigne he was thirtie and two yeres olde, and raigned in Hierusalem eyght yeres, and liued wretchedly: howebeit they buried him in the citie of Dauid, but not among the sepulchres of the kinges.

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 the angel of the Lord founde her beside a fountaine in ye wildernes, [euen] by the well that is in the way to Sur,
Genesis 19:27
Abraham rysyng vp early, gote hym to the place where he stoode before the presence of God, and loked towarde Sodome and Gomorrhe, and towarde all the lande of that playne countrey,
Genesis 21:6
But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.
Genesis 21:7
She sayd also: who would haue sayde vnto Abraham, that Sara shoulde haue geuen chyldren sucke? for I haue borne [him] a sonne in his olde age.
Genesis 21:23
And nowe therefore, sweare vnto me euen here by God, that thou wylt not hurt me, nor my chyldren, nor my chyldrens children: but that thou shalt deale with me and the countrey where thou hast ben a straunger, accordyng vnto the kyndnesse that I haue shewed thee.
Genesis 21:25
And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a wel of water, which Abimeleches seruauntes had violently taken away.
Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a wood in Beer seba, and called there on the name of the Lorde the euerlasting God.
Genesis 22:3
Then Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and sadled his Asse, and toke two of his young men with hym, and Isahac his sonne, and cloue wood for the burnt offering, and rose vp, and got hym to the place whiche God had appointed hym.
Genesis 22:19
So turned Abraham againe vnto his young men: and they rose vp, and went together to Beer seba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer seba.

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.


 
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