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Jehoram’s Illness and Death(A)

18 After all of this happened, the Lord struck him in his bowels with an incurable illness. 19 In due course, as time passed, two years later[a] his bowels came out because of his sickness and he died in agony. His people lit no memorial bonfire for him as they had done for his ancestors. 20 Jehoram[b] was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. He left this earth[c]—to nobody’s regret—and they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 21:19 Lit. And it came about with respect to the days from the days, as time went out, at the end of two days
  2. 2 Chronicles 21:20 Lit. He
  3. 2 Chronicles 21:20 The Heb. lacks this earth