2 Chronicles 21:12-15
letter <04385> [A.M. 3116. B.C. 888. a writing.]
"Which was writ before his assumption."
Elijah ... prophet <05030 0452> [Elijah the prophet.]
If the account of the translation of Elijah be given in the order in which it happened, then it occurred in the reign of Jehoshaphat, the father of Jehoram. Hence, it is probable that he wrote it before his assumption, and left it to be delivered by Elisha or one of the prophets.
footsteps ..... Jehoshaphat <01870 03092> [in the ways of Jehoshaphat.]
footsteps ......... Asa <01870 0609> [in the ways of Asa.]
footsteps <01870> [in the way.]
unfaithful <02181> [a whoring.]
killed <02026> [hast slain.]
severely <04046> [plague. Heb. stroke.]
people <05971> [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.
sons <01121> [thy children.]
disease <04245> [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.
intestinal ....... intestines ... come out <04578 03318> [thy bowels fall.]
chronic <02483> [the sickness.]
