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Contemporary English Version

2 Chronicles 21:18

After this happened, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Bowels;   Disease;   Jehoram;   Thompson Chain Reference - Disease;   God's;   Judgments, God's;   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;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahaziah;   Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Diseases;   Dysentery;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Medicine;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Joram, Jehoram;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Athaliah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bowels;   Cure;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
Hebrew Names Version
After all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
King James Version
And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
English Standard Version
And after all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
New Century Version
After these things happened, the Lord gave Jehoram a disease in his intestines that could not be cured.
New English Translation
After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease.
Amplified Bible
After all this, the LORD struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.
New American Standard Bible
So after all this the LORD struck him in his intestines with an incurable sickness.
World English Bible
After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And after all this, the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Legacy Standard Bible
So after all this Yahweh smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.
Berean Standard Bible
After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
Complete Jewish Bible
After all this, Adonai struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
Darby Translation
And after all this, Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.
Easy-to-Read Version
After this happened, the Lord made Jehoram sick with a disease in his intestines that could not be cured.
George Lamsa Translation
And after all this he was smitten in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Good News Translation
Then after all this, the Lord brought on the king a painful disease of the intestines.
Lexham English Bible
And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for which there was no cure.
Literal Translation
And after this, Jehovah struck him in his bowels by disease for which there was no healing;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And after all this dyd ye LORDE smyte him in his bowels, with soch a sicknesse as coulde not be healed.
American Standard Version
And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And after all these thinges, the Lorde smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
King James Version (1611)
And after all this, the Lord smote him in his bowels, with an incurable disease.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And after all these things the Lord smote him in the bowels with an incurable disease.
English Revised Version
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ouer alle these thingis the Lord smoot hym with vncurable sorewe of the wombe.
Update Bible Version
And after all this Yahweh smote him in his insides with an incurable disease.
Webster's Bible Translation
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
New King James Version
After all this the LORD struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
New Living Translation
After all this, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.
New Life Bible
After all this the Lord caused a sickness in Jehoram's stomach, which could not be cured.
New Revised Standard
After all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, after all this, Yahweh plagued him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels.
Revised Standard Version
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Young's Literal Translation
And after all this hath Jehovah plagued him in his bowels by a disease for which there is no healing,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.

Contextual Overview

12 One day, Jehoram received a letter from Elijah the prophet that said: I have a message for you from the Lord God your ancestor David worshiped. He knows that you have not followed the example of Jehoshaphat your father or Asa your grandfather. 13 Instead you have acted like those sinful kings of Israel and have encouraged the people of Judah to stop worshiping the Lord , just as Ahab and his descendants did. You even murdered your own brothers, who were better men than you. 14 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. 15 You will be struck with a painful stomach disease and suffer until you die. 16 The Lord later caused the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Ethiopians to become angry at Jehoram. 17 They invaded Judah and stole the royal property from the palace, and they led Jehoram's wives and sons away as prisoners. The only one left behind was Ahaziah, his youngest son. 18 After this happened, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease. 19 About two years later, Jehoram died in terrible pain. No bonfire was built to honor him, even though the people had done this for his ancestors. 20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he ruled eight years from Jerusalem. He died, and no one even felt sad. He was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the royal tombs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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And after all: "His son Ahaziah Prorex, soon after."

an incurable disease: 2 Chronicles 21:15, 2 Kings 9:29, Acts 12:23

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 24:25 - great diseases Psalms 38:7 - my loins Zechariah 14:12 - Their flesh Revelation 16:2 - a noisome

Cross-References

Genesis 16:10
I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.
Genesis 17:20
I have heard what you asked me to do for Ishmael, and so I will also bless him with many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make his family a great nation.
Genesis 21:12
But God said, "Abraham, don't worry about your slave woman and the boy. Just do what Sarah tells you. Isaac will inherit your family name,
Genesis 21:13
but the son of the slave woman is also your son, and I will make his descendants into a great nation."
Genesis 21:18
Help him up and hold his hand, because I will make him the father of a great nation."
Genesis 21:29
and Abimelech asked, "Why have you done this?"
Genesis 21:31
So they called the place Beersheba, because they made a treaty there.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,

"the Word of the Lord broke him.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 21:18. The Lord smote him — "And after all these things the WORD Of the Lord smote his bowels," &c. - Targum.


 
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