and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives, so that there was no son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 21:17 in context
2 Chronicles 21:14–20
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behold, the LORD will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions;
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and you will have great sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.’”
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The LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;
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and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives, so that there was no son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
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After all this the LORD struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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In process of time, at the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of severe diseases. His people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
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He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.
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