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17 They attacked Judah and swept through it.[a] They carried off everything they found in the royal palace,[b] including his sons and wives. None of his sons was left, except for his youngest, Ahaziah. 18 After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease.[c] 19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death.[d] His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 21:17 tn Heb “broke it up.”
  2. 2 Chronicles 21:17 tn Heb “all the property which was found in the house of the king.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 21:18 tn Heb “in his intestines with an illness [for which] there was no healing.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 21:19 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.”
  5. 2 Chronicles 21:19 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”