2 Chronicles 21:15
in 2 Chronicles 21And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
KJV
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
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This verse in 2 Chronicles 21
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAnd thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,.... Which was a just retaliation to him, for having no bowels of compassion on his brethren whom he slew: until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day; that continuing day after day, and even year after year, the space of two years, as appears from 2Ch 21:19.
This site's exposition
with a great plague will the Lord smite
on 2 Chronicles 21:14-15
Elijah's letter turns from indictment to sentence: a great plague on the people, the children, the wives and all the goods, and on Jehoram himself a disease of the bowels that will grow day by day until the bowels themselves fall out. The two clauses are not separate threats but one unfolding judgment, and the chapter will report both fulfilled in order, the household first and the king's own body last.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
People - Because the generality of them sinned, in complying with his wicked and idolatrous commands. Wives - Whose lives shall go for the lives of thy brethren, ver. 4.
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No marvel that hardened sinners are not frightened from sin and to repentance by the threatenings of misery in another world, which is future and out of sight, when the certain prospect of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates and the ruin of their healths, will not restrain them from vicious courses.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Until thy bowels fall out - This must have been occasioned by a violent inflammation: by the same death perished Antiochus Epiphanes, and Herod Agrippa.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem . . . like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab--that is, introduced the superstitions and vices of Phœnician idolatry (see on De 13:6-14). On this account, as well as for his unnatural cruelties, divine vengeance was denounced against him, which was soon after executed exactly as the prophet had foretold.
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The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַתָּ֛ה | veatah | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| בָּחֳלָיִ֥ים | bocholayim | [will be] in sickness<es> | H2483 → | 24 times |
| רַבִּ֖ים | rabim | great | H7227 → | 454 times |
| בְּמַחֲלֵ֣ה | bemachaleh | in [the] sickness of | H4245 → | |
| מֵעֶ֑יךָ | meeikha | bowels your | H4578 → | 32 times |
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| יֵצְא֤וּ | yetzeu | they will come out | H3318 → | 1067 times |
| מֵעֶ֙יךָ֙ | meeikha | bowels your | H4578 → | 32 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַחֹ֔לִי | hacholi | the sickness | H2483 → | 24 times |
| יָמִ֖ים | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| יָמִֽים׃ | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וְאַתָּ֛הand you
veatahH859 →1094 times
בָּחֳלָיִ֥ים[will be] in sickness<es>
bocholayimH2483 →24 times
רַבִּ֖יםgreat
rabimH7227 →454 times
בְּמַחֲלֵ֣הin [the] sickness of
bemachalehH4245 →
מֵעֶ֑יךָbowels your
meeikhaH4578 →32 times
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
יֵצְא֤וּthey will come out
yetzeuH3318 →1067 times
מֵעֶ֙יךָ֙bowels your
meeikhaH4578 →32 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַחֹ֔לִיthe sickness
hacholiH2483 →24 times
יָמִ֖יםdays
yamimH3117 →2304 times
עַל־to
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
יָמִֽים׃days
yamimH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Acts 1:18(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
it leads to
- Matthew 27:3–10
When Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was filled with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders.
- Psalms 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Matthew 27:3–10
Through
Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
- Jeremiah 24:9
I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- 1 Kings 9:7–8
then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an…
- 2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of…
- Jeremiah 25:9
Through
Psalms 109:18The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
it leads to
- Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
- Numbers 5:22
May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
- Psalms 73:6
About 2 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.