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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 21:18

Then after all this, the Lord brought on the king a painful disease of the intestines.

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.
Contemporary English Version
After this happened, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable stomach disease.
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.
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 The prophet Elijah sent Jehoram a letter, which read as follows: "The Lord , the God of your ancestor David, condemns you, because you did not follow the example of your father, King Jehoshaphat, or that of your grandfather, King Asa. 13 Instead, you have followed the example of the kings of Israel and have led the people of Judah and Jerusalem into being unfaithful to God, just as Ahab and his successors led Israel into unfaithfulness. You even murdered your brothers, who were better men than you are. 14 As a result, the Lord will severely punish your people, your children, and your wives, and will destroy your possessions. 15 You yourself will suffer a painful intestinal disease that will grow worse day by day." 16 Some Philistines and Arabs lived near where some Ethiopians had settled along the coast. The Lord caused them to go to war against Jehoram. 17 They invaded Judah, looted the royal palace, and carried off as prisoners all the king's wives and sons except Ahaziah, his youngest son. 18 Then after all this, the Lord brought on the king a painful disease of the intestines. 19 For almost two years it grew steadily worse until finally the king died in agony. His subjects did not light a bonfire in mourning for him as had been done for his ancestors. 20 Jehoram had become king at the age of thirty-two and had ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. Nobody was sorry when he died. They buried him in David's City, 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
Then he said, "I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.
Genesis 17:20
I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be worried about the boy and your slave Hagar. Do whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I have promised.
Genesis 21:13
I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a nation. He too is your son."
Genesis 21:18
Get up, go and pick him up, and comfort him. I will make a great nation out of his descendants."
Genesis 21:29
and Abimelech asked him, "Why did you do that?"
Genesis 21:31
And so the place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them made a vow.

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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