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Douay-Rheims Bible

2 Chronicles 21:14

Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

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:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Beholde, with a great plague will the Lorde smite thy folke, thy children, thy wyues, and all thy goods:
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;
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 was a letter brought him from Eliseus the prophet, in which it was written: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Josaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa king of Juda, 13 But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself, 14 Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance. 15 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. 16 And the Lord stirred up against Joram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, who border on the Ethiopians. 17 And they came up into the land of Juda, and wasted it, and they carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, his sons also, and his wives: so that there was no son left him but Joachaz, who was the youngest. 18 And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels. 19 And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years passed: then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void his very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most wretched illness, and the people did not make a funeral for him according to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors. 20 He was two and thirty years old when he began his reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he walked not rightly, and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

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 having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,
Genesis 19:27
And Abraham got up early in the morning, and in the place where he had stood before with the Lord:
Genesis 21:6
And Sara said: God hath made a laughter for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with me.
Genesis 21:7
And again she said: Who would believe that Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
Genesis 21:23
Swear therefore by God, that thou wilt not hurt me, nor my posterity, nor my stock: but according to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land wherein thou hast lived a stranger.
Genesis 21:25
And he reproved Abimelech for a well of water, which his servants had taken away by force.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.
Genesis 21:33
And Abimelech and Phicol, the general of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Palestines. But Abraham planted a grove in Bersabee, and there called upon the name of the Lord God eternal.
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
Genesis 22:19
Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

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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