2 Chronicles 21:16-20

21:16 The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the Philistines ¹  and the Arabs who lived beside the Cushites. 21:17 They attacked Judah and swept through it. ²  They carried off everything they found in the royal palace, ³  including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah. 21:18 After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease. ⁴  21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. ⁵  His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. ⁶ 

21:20 Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. No one regretted his death; ⁷  he was buried in the City of David, ⁸  but not in the royal tombs.

[21:16]  ¹ tn Heb “the spirit of the Philistines.”

[21:17]  ² tn Heb “broke it up.”

[21:17]  ³ tn Heb “all the property which was found in the house of the king.”

[21:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “in his intestines with an illness [for which] there was no healer.”

[21:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”

[21:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”

[21:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he went without desire.”

[21:20]  ⁸ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.