2 Chronicles 21:15-20

15 You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.’ ”

16 The LORD aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

17 They attacked Judah, invaded it and carried off all the goods found in the king’s palace, together with his sons and wives. Not a son was left to him except Ahaziah,^[a] the youngest.

18 After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.

19 In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.

20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 21:15-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. ver 18-19; S Numbers 12:10
• 2. 2 Chronicles 17:10-11; 2 Chronicles 22:1; 2 Chronicles 26:7
• 3. 2 Kings 12:18; 2 Chronicles 22:1; 2 Chronicles 25:23; Joel 3:5
• 4. S 2 Chronicles 16:14
• 5. 2 Chronicles 24:25; 2 Chronicles 28:27; 2 Chronicles 33:20; Jeremiah 22:18,28

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "Jehoahaz," a variant of "Ahaziah"