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World English Bible

2 Chronicles 21:14

behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your 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;
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;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.
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 There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself: 14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance; 15 and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day. 16 Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians: 17 and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons. 18 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease. 19 It happened, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers. 20 Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs 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
The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
Genesis 19:27
Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:7
She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."
Genesis 21:23
Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned."
Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 22:3
Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

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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