14. the Lord will now strike your family, your children, your wives, and all your possessions with a heavy blow.
15. You yourself will become deathly ill with a chronic disease that will cause your intestines to fall out."
16. Then the Lord made the Philistines and the Arabs, who lived near the Cushites, angry with Jehoram.
17. They attacked Judah, broke down its defenses, and hauled off all the goods that were found in the royal palace, along with the king’s children and wives. Only Jehoahaz, Jehoram’s youngest son, was spared.
18. After all this, the Lord struck Jehoram with an incurable intestinal disease.
19. For almost two years he grew steadily worse, until two days before his death, when his intestines fell out, causing him to die in horrible pain. His people didn’t make a fire in his honor as they had done for his ancestors.
20. He was 32 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eight years in Jerusalem. No one was sorry he died. He was buried in David’s City but not in the royal cemetery.