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the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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2 Chronicles 21:15

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."

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.
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.'"
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 A letter came to him from the prophet Elijah, saying: "Thus says the Lord , the God of your father David: Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or in the ways of King Asa of Judah, 13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into unfaithfulness, as the house of Ahab led Israel into unfaithfulness, and because you also have killed your brothers, members of your father's house, who were better than yourself, 14 see, the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, 15 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." 16 The Lord aroused against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabs who are near the Ethiopians. 17 They came up against Judah, invaded it, and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king's house, along with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son. 18 After all this the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19 In course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his ancestors. 20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He departed with no one's regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs 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
The Lord dealt with Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had promised.
Genesis 21:3
Abraham gave the name Isaac to his son whom Sarah bore him.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:22
At that time Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do;
Genesis 21:25
When Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,
2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out; and when they had made a roundabout march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that were with them.
Psalms 63:1

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Isaiah 44:12
The ironsmith fashions it and works it over the coals, shaping it with hammers, and forging it with his strong arm; he becomes hungry and his strength fails, he drinks no water and is faint.
Jeremiah 14:3
Her nobles send their servants for water; they come to the cisterns, they find no water, they return with their vessels empty. They are ashamed and dismayed and cover 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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