15And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. …
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-20)Here we have, I. A warning from God sent to Jehoram by a writing from Elijah the prophet. By this it appears that Jehoram came to the throne, and showed himself what he was before Elijah’s translation. It is true we find Elisha attending Jehoshaphat, and described as pouring water on the hands of Elijah, after the story of Elijah’s translation (2 Kgs. 3:11); but that might be, and that description…
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