2 Chronicles 21:14
Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
2 Chronicles 21:14 in other translations
| BSB | So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow. |
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| WEB | behold, the LORD will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions; |
| ASV | behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance; |
| YLT | lo, Jehovah is smiting--a great smiting--among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods-- |
| DARBY | behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance, |
| BBE | Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours: |
| Webster | Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: |
What does 2 Chronicles 21:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 21:12-19
12-15. there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet--That prophet's translation having taken place in the reign of Jehoshaphat [2Ki 2:11, 12], we must conclude that the name of Elijah has, by the error of a transcriber, been put for that of Elisha.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 21:12-20
A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram's crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly ruin him. But no marvel that sinners are not frightened from sin, and to repentance, by the threatenings of misery in another world, when the certainty of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates, and the ruin of…
2 Chronicles 21:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 21:14
- Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
- Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.
- Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Le 26:21
thy people.Many of the people had concurred in Jehoram's idolatry, and some of them must have been instruments in his base, unnatural murders; they were therefore joined in his punishment, and he suffered by the loss of his subjects.
Ho 5:11; Mic 6:16
thy children.
Ex 20:5
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 21:13
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, which were better than thyself:
- 2 Chronicles 21:14
Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
- 2 Chronicles 21:15
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
2 Chronicles 21:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | He aquí Jehová herirá tu pueblo de una grande plaga, y á tus hijos y á tus mujeres, y á toda tu hacienda; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – voici, l’ Éternel te frappera d’un grand coup dans ton peuple et dans tes fils et dans tes femmes et dans tous tes biens, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | siehe, so wird Jehova dein Volk und deine Söhne und deine Weiber und alle deine Habe plagen mit einer großen Plage; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ecce Dominus percutiet te plaga magna cum populo tuo, et filiis, et uxoribus tuis, universaque substantia tua. |