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Instead you have lived by the example of the kings of Isra'el and have caused Y'hudah and the people living in Yerushalayim to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ach'av caused [Isra'el] to prostitute themselves. Moreover, you killed your brothers from your father's house, men better than you.
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Because of all this, ADONAI is going to strike your people with a terrible disease, also your children, your wives and everything you have.
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You will be very ill from a disease in your intestines, until your intestines protrude, because of the effects of this disease, day after day.'"
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Then ADONAI aroused against Y'horam the spirit of the P'lishtim and of the Arabs near the Ethiopians;
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and they came up to attack Y'hudah. They broke in and carried off all the personal property they could find in the royal palace, as well as his children and his wives; so that no son was left to him except Y'ho'achaz his youngest son.
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After all this, ADONAI struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
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In time, after two years, his intestines protruded because of his disease, and he suffered a most painful death. His people kindled no fire for him, as had been done for his ancestors.
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He was thirty-two years old when he began his reign, he ruled in Yerushalayim for eight years, and he left without joy. They buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.