2 Chronicles

¹²And there came a letter to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father [forefather]: Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, ¹³But have walked in the ways of Israel's kings, and made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem play the harlot like the [spiritual] harlotry of Ahab's house, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than you, ¹⁴Behold, the Lord will smite your people, and your children, your wives, and all your possessions with a great plague. ¹⁵And you yourself shall have a severe illness because of an intestinal disease, until your bowels fall out because of the sickness, day after day. ¹⁶And the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabs who were near the Ethiopians. ¹⁷They came against Judah, invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in and around the king's house, together with his sons and his wives; so there was not a son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest. ¹⁸And after all this, the Lord smote [Jehoram] with an incurable intestinal disease.