18And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
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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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