2-Chronicles - 21:18

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18 After all this Yahweh struck him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 21:18.

Differing Translations

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And besides all this the Lord struck him with an incurable disease in his bowels.
And after all this, Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.
And after all this hath Jehovah plagued him in his bowels by a disease for which there is no healing,
And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.
And in addition to all these things, the Lord struck him with an incurable disease of the bowels.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The Lord smote him - "And after all these things the Word of the Lord smote his bowels," etc. - Targum.

After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord broke him.''

The second punishment fell upon the body and life of the king. The Lord smote him in his bowels to (with) disease, for which there was no healing. מרפּא לאין is in apposition to לחלי, literally, "to not being healing."

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