After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
Parallel translations
- KJV And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
- BSB After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
- NKJV After all this the Lord struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.
- NASB So after all this the Lord struck him in his intestines with an incurable sickness.
- NLT After all this, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.
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Cross-references · 3
- 2 Chr 21:15and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”
- 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.
- 2 Kgs 9:29In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah began to reign over Judah.
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