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and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
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Poetic and Divine Justice
Commentator John Gill highlights that Jehoram's gruesome intestinal disease was a form of divine poetic justice. Because Jehoram had no 'bowels of compassion' for his brothers whom he murdered, God afflicted him with a disease of the bowels. This serves as a stark reminder that God's judgments can directly correspond to the nature of the sin.
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2 Chronicles
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19th Century
Anglican
And thou shalt have great sickness. —Literally, And thou thyself shalt be in great diseases through diseasing of thy …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels , &c.] Which was a just retaliation to him, for having n…
Presbyterian
A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might have directed Elijah to prepare this writing in foresight of Jehoram's crimes.…
