2 Chronicles 21:12-19

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¹²Jehoram received a letter from Elijah^(A) the prophet, which said:

“This is what the Lord, the God of your father^(B) David, says: ‘You have not followed the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa^(C) king of Judah. ¹³But you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and you have led Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab did.^(D) You have also murdered your own brothers, members of your own family, men who were better^(E) than you. ¹⁴So now the Lord is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives and everything that is yours, with a heavy blow. ¹⁵You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease^(F) of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.’”

¹⁶The Lord aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs^(G) who lived near the Cushites. ¹⁷They 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.^(H)

¹⁸After all this, the Lord afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. ¹⁹In 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,^(I) as they had for his predecessors.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 21:17 Hebrew Jehoahaz, a variant of Ahaziah

Acts 28:8

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⁸His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer,^(A) placed his hands on him^(B) and healed him.^(C)

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