2 Chronicles 21:18

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

2 Chronicles 21:18 in Other Translations

18 And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

18 And after all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

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

18 The terrible and fatal disease in his colon followed. After about two years he was totally incontinent and died writhing in pain.

18 After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.

2 Chronicles 21:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 21:18

After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an
incurable disease.
] What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,

``the Word of the Lord broke him.''

2 Chronicles 21:18 In-Context

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, 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.