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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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Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

On 2 Chronicles 21:15

19th Century

Bishop

And thou shalt have great sickness. —Literally, And thou thyself shalt be in great diseases through diseasing of thy …

John Gill

John Gill

On 2 Chronicles 21:15

17th Century

Pastor

And you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels ,
&c.] Which was a just retaliation to him, for having n…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

On 2 Chronicles 21:12–20

17th Century

Minister

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.…