2 Chronicles 21 · Verse 15

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 21:15, King James Version

2 Chronicles 21:15 in other translations

BSBAnd day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”
WEBand you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”
ASVand thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
YLTand thou, with many sicknesses, with disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels come out, by the sickness, day by day.'
DARBYand thyself with sore sicknesses, with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
BBEAnd you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.
WebsterAnd thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

What does 2 Chronicles 21:15 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.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Until thy bowels fall out - This must have been occasioned by a violent inflammation: by the same death perished Antiochus Epiphanes, and Herod Agrippa.

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…

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2 Chronicles 21:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְאַתָּ֛הve.'a.Tahand youH859
בָּחֳלָיִ֥יםbo.cho.la.Yim[will be] in sickness<es>H2483
רַבִּ֖יםra.BimgreatH7227
בְּמַחֲלֵ֣הbe.ma.cha.Lehin [the] sickness ofH4245
מֵעֶ֑יךָme.'Ei.khabowels yourH4578
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
יֵצְא֤וּye.tze.'Uthey will come outH3318
מֵעֶ֙יךָ֙me.'Ei.khabowels yourH4578
מִן\־min-fromH4480
הַחֹ֔לִיha.Cho.lithe sicknessH2483
יָמִ֖יםya.MimdaysH3117
עַל\־'al-toH5921
יָמִֽים\׃ya.MimdaysH3117

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 2 Chronicles 21:15

  • 2 Chronicles 21:18-19

    And after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

  • Acts 1:18

    Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

  • Deuteronomy 28:27

    The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

  • Psalms 109:18

    As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

  • Deuteronomy 28:67

    In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

  • Deuteronomy 28:37

    And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

  • Deuteronomy 28:59

    Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

  • Numbers 5:27

    And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

  • Deuteronomy 28:61

    Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

  • Acts 12:23

    And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
by disease.This is supposed to have been a violent dysentery, a disease which is often attended with symptoms similar to those described in the text; by the same death perished Antiochus Ephiphenes, and Herod Agrippa.
18,19; Nu 5:27; De 28:61; Ac 12:23
thy bowels fall.
Ps 109:18; Ac 1:18
the sickness.
18; De 28:27,37,59,67

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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 21:16

    Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:

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2 Chronicles 21:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y á ti con muchas enfermedades, con enfermedad de tus entrañas, hasta que las entrañas se te salgan á causa de la enfermedad de cada día.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et toi-même de grandes maladies, d’une maladie d’entrailles, jusqu’à ce que tes entrailles sortent par l’effet de la maladie, jour après jour.
German
Elberfelder 1871
du aber wirst schwer erkranken an einer Krankheit deiner Eingeweide, bis deine Eingeweide infolge der Krankheit heraustreten werden Tag für Tag.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Tu autem ægrotabis pessimo languore uteri tui, donec egrediantur vitalia tua paulatim per singulos dies.