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Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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2 Chronicles 21:15

You will have a painful sickness in your intestines that will get worse and worse. Your intestines will finally come out.'"

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.
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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
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 Jehoram received this message from Elijah the prophet: "This is what the Lord , the God your father David followed, says, ‘Jehoram, you have not lived the way your father Jehoshaphat lived. You have not lived the way King Asa of Judah lived. 13 But you have lived the way the kings of Israel lived. You have caused the people of Judah and Jerusalem to stop doing what God wants. That is what Ahab and his family did. They were unfaithful to God. You have killed your brothers, and they were better than you. 14 So now, the Lord will soon punish your people with terrible suffering. He will punish your children, your wives, and all your property. 15 You will have a painful sickness in your intestines that will get worse and worse. Your intestines will finally come out.'" 16 The Lord caused the Philistines and the Arabs living near the Ethiopians to be angry with Jehoram. 17 They attacked Judah and carried away all the riches in the king's palace. They also took Jehoram's sons and wives. Only Jehoram's youngest son, Ahaziah, was left. 18 After this happened, the Lord made Jehoram sick with a disease in his intestines that could not be cured. 19 His intestines fell out two years later because of his sickness. He died in very bad pain. The people did not make a large fire to honor Jehoram as they did for his father. 20 Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king. He ruled eight years in Jerusalem. No one was sad when he died. The people buried Jehoram in the City of David, but not in the graves where the kings are buried.

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
The Lord came back to visit Sarah as he said he would, and he kept his promise to her.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham named his son Isaac.
Genesis 21:14
Early the next morning Abraham took some food and water and gave them to Hagar. She carried them and left with her boy. She left that place and wandered in the desert of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:22
Then Abimelech and Phicol spoke with Abraham. Phicol was the commander of Abimelech's army. They said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
Genesis 21:25
Then Abraham complained to Abimelech because Abimelech's servants had captured a well of water.
2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom. They traveled around for seven days. There was not enough water for the army or for their animals.
Psalms 63:1

A song of David written when he was in the desert of Judah.

God, you are my God. I am searching so hard to find you. Body and soul, I thirst for you in this dry and weary land without water.
Isaiah 44:12
One worker uses his tools to heat iron over hot coals. Then he uses his hammer to beat the metal to shape it into a statue. He uses his own powerful arms, but when he gets hungry, he loses his strength. If he does not drink water, he becomes weak.
Jeremiah 14:3
The leaders of the people send their servants to get water. The servants go to the water storage places, but they don't find any water. The servants come back with empty jars, so they are ashamed and embarrassed. They cover their heads from shame.

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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