11. He also set up high places in the mountains of Judah, prostituting the inhabitants of Jerusalem, leading Judah astray.
12. A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet with this message: “Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: Because you have not walked in the way of your father Jehoshaphat, nor of Asa, king of Judah,
13. but instead have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, leading Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into prostitution, like the harlotries of the house of Ahab, and because you have killed your brothers of your father’s house, who were better than you,
14. the Lord will strike your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a great plague.
15. You shall have severe pains from a disease in your bowels, which will fall out because of the disease, day after day.”
16. Then the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the animosity of the Philistines and of the Arabians who were neighbors of the Ethiopians.
17. They came up against Judah, breached it, and carried away all the wealth found in the king’s house, along with his sons and his wives. He was left with only one son, Jehoahaz, his youngest.
18. After these events, the Lord afflicted him with a disease of the bowels for which there was no cure.
19. Some time later, after a period of two years had elapsed, his bowels fell out because of the disease and he died in great pain. His people did not make a fire for him as they had for his ancestors.
20. He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. He departed unloved; and they buried him in the City of David, though not in the tombs of the kings.