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2 Chronicles 21:13-20

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13 but 1have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot 2as the house of Ahab played the harlot, and you 3have also killed your brothers, your own family *, who were better than you,
14 behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity;
15 and 4you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.' "
16 Then 5the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and 6the Arabs who bordered * the Ethiopians;
17 and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king's house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except * 7Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 So after all this the LORD smote him 8in his bowels with an incurable * sickness.
19 Now it came about in the course * of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died in great pain. And his people made no fire for him like 9the fire for his fathers.
20 He was thirty-two * years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed 10with no one's regret, and they buried him in the city of David, 11but not in the tombs of the kings.
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2 Chronicles 21:13-20 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 21

This chapter relates Jehoram's succession to the throne of Judah, and the murders and idolatries committed by him, 2Ch 21:1-7, the revolt of the Edomites from him, and some of his own people, 2Ch 21:8-11, a writing of Elijah to him, threatening a great plague to him and his family, 2Ch 21:12-15, the raising up of several enemies against him, 2Ch 21:16,17, his sickness, death, and burial, 2Ch 21:18-20.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

  • 1. 2 Chronicles 21:6
  • 2. 1 Kings 16:31-33
  • 3. 2 Chronicles 21:4
  • 4. 2 Chronicles 21:18, 19
  • 5. 2 Chronicles 33:11
  • 6. 2 Chronicles 17:11; 2 Chronicles 22:1
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 25:23
  • 8. 2 Chronicles 21:15
  • 9. 2 Chronicles 16:14
  • 10. Jeremiah 22:18, 28
  • 11. 2 Chronicles 24:25; 2 Chronicles 28:27

Footnotes 6

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