You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels 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.
- BSB 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.’”
- 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.’ ”
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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.
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- 2 Chr 21:18–19After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
- Deut 28:37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Deut 28:27Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
- Deut 28:59then Yahweh will make your plagues fearful, and the plagues of your offspring, even great plagues, and of long duration, and severe sicknesses, and of long duration.
- Ps 109:18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
- Num 5:27When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse will enter into her and become bitter, and her body will swell, and her thigh will fall away: and the woman will be a curse among her people.
- Deut 28:61Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, Yahweh will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.
- Deut 28:67In the morning you will say, “I wish it were evening!” and at evening you will say, “I wish it were morning!” for the fear of your heart which you will fear, and for the sights which your eyes will see.
- Acts 1:18Now this man obtained a field with the reward for his wickedness, and falling headlong, his body burst open, and all his intestines gushed out.
- Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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