2 Chronicles 21:15
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New International Version (©2011)
You yourself will be very ill with a lingering disease of the bowels, until the disease causes your bowels to come out.'"

New Living Translation (©2007)
You yourself will suffer with a severe intestinal disease that will get worse each day until your bowels come out."

English Standard Version (©2001)
and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.'"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You yourself will be struck with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease."

International Standard Version (©2012)
And as for you, you will suffer from a serious disease of your bowels. Eventually, day-by-day you will excrete your own bowels because of this disease."

NET Bible (©2006)
And you will get a serious, chronic intestinal disease which will cause your intestines to come out."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You will suffer from a chronic intestinal disease until your intestines come out."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you shall have great sickness by disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out because of the sickness day by day.

American King James Version
And you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

American Standard Version
and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.

Darby Bible Translation
and thyself with sore sicknesses, with a disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

English Revised Version
and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

World English Bible
and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.'"

Young's Literal Translation
and thou, with many sicknesses, with disease of thy bowels, till thy bowels come out, by the sickness, day by day.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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 their health, will not restrain them from vicious courses. See Jehoram here stripped of all his comforts. Thus God plainly showed that the controversy was with him, and his house. He had slain all his brethren to strengthen himself; now, all his sons are slain but one. David's house must not be wholly destroyed, like those of Israel's kings, because a blessing was in it; that of the Messiah. Good men may be afflicted with diseases; but to them they are fatherly chastisements, and by the support of Divine consolations the soul may dwell at ease, even when the body lies in pain. To be sick and poor, sick and solitary, but especially to be sick and in sin, sick and under the curse of God, sick and without grace to bear it, is a most deplorable case. Wickedness and profaneness make men despicable, even in the eyes of those who have but little religion.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - Therefore against Jehoram and Judas Iscariot and Herod was it decreed that their very bowels should bear witness.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,.... Which was a just retaliation to him, for having no bowels of compassion on his brethren whom he slew:

until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day; that continuing day after day, and even year after year, the space of two years, as appears from 2 Chronicles 21:19.

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Elija's Letter to Jehoram
…13But have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the prostitutions of the house of Ahab, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, which were better than yourself: 14Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your goods: 15And you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

2 Chronicles 21:14 So now the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives and everything that is yours, with a heavy blow.
2 Chronicles 21:18 After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels.
2 Chronicles 21:19 In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no funeral fire in his honor, as they had for his predecessors.