◄ 2 Chronicles 21:14 ►
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Good News Translation
As a result, the LORD will severely punish your people, your children, and your wives, and will destroy your possessions.

New Revised Standard Version
see, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,

Contemporary English Version
Because you have done these terrible things, the LORD will severely punish the people in your kingdom, including your own family, and he will destroy everything you own.

New American Bible
the LORD will strike your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a great plague.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.

plague [heb] stroke

Leviticus 26:21 If you walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times more plagues upon you for your sins.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Micah 6:16 For thou hast kept the statutes of Amri, and all the works of the house of Achab: and thou hast walked according their wills, that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing, and you shall bear the reproach of my people.

thy children

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Context
Elijah's Letter to Jehoram
…13But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself, 14Behold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance.15And thou shalt be sick of a very grievous disease of thy bowels, till thy vital parts come out by little and little every day.…
Cross References
1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

2 Chronicles 21:13
But hast walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and hast made Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, imitating the fornication of the house of Achab, moreover also thou hast killed thy brethren, the house of thy father, better men than thyself,

2 Chronicles 21:15
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.

2 Chronicles 21:13
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