15 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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Until thy bowels fall out - This must have been occasioned by a violent inflammation: by the same death perished Antiochus Epiphanes, and Herod Agrippa.
And thou [shalt have] great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until (h) thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
(h) We see this example daily practised on them who fall away from God, and become idolaters and murderers of their brethren.
And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels,.... Which was a just retaliation to him, for having no bowels of compassion on his brethren whom he slew:
until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day; that continuing day after day, and even year after year, the space of two years, as appears from 2-Chronicles 21:19.
People - Because the generality of them sinned, in complying with his wicked and idolatrous commands. Wives - Whose lives shall go for the lives of thy brethren, 2-Chronicles 21:4.
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