2 Chronicles 21:19

19 For almost two years he grew steadily worse, until two days before his death, when his intestines fell out, causing him to die in horrible pain. His people didn't make a fire in his honor as they had done for his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 21:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 21:19

And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of
two years
So long he was afflicted and tortured with the above disease:

his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness;
either in like manner as Judas's did, ( Acts 1:18 ) or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault ^F1; or perhaps only what was contained in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic:

so he died of sore diseases;
he seems to have had a complication of them, and these very painful and distressing:

and the people made no burning for him, like the burnings of his
fathers;
as they did for his grandfather Asa, ( 2 Chronicles 16:14 ) , they did not burn spices or odoriferous wood, as the Targum; though his body, because of the stench of it, needed it, as Jarchi observes.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 29, 30.

2 Chronicles 21:19 In-Context

17 They attacked Judah, broke down its defenses, and hauled off all the goods that were found in the royal palace, along with the king's children and wives. Only Jehoahaz, Jehoram's youngest son, was spared.

18 After all this, the LORD struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.

19 For almost two years he grew steadily worse, until two days before his death, when his intestines fell out, causing him to die in horrible pain. His people didn't make a fire in his honor as they had done for his ancestors.

20 He was 32 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eight years in Jerusalem. No one was sorry he died. He was buried in David's City but not in the royal cemetery.