And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your 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.
- NKJV and you will become very sick with a disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
- NASB and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’ ”
- NLT You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out.”
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Quick answer
The prophet foretold that Jehoram himself would suffer a fatal, agonizing bowel disease. His own body would bear God's judgment.
Overview
Elijah announced that Jehoram would endure a lingering, painful illness ending in death. The personal nature of the judgment fit a king who had personally led others into sin. The fulfillment, recorded later, confirms the reliability of God's prophetic word.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 2 Chr 21:18–19After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
- Deut 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Deut 28:27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
- Deut 28:59He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.
- Ps 109:18The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
- Num 5:27When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
- Deut 28:61The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
- Deut 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
- 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.
- Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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