12. Then Jehoram received this letter from Elijah the prophet:This is what the Lord, the God of your ancestor David, says, “Jehoram, you have not lived as your father Jehoshaphat lived and as Asa king of Judah lived.
13. But you have lived as the kings of Israel lived, leading the people of Judah and Jerusalem to sin against God, as Ahab and his family did. You have killed your brothers, and they were better than you.
14. So now the Lord is about to punish your people, your children, wives, and everything you own.
15. You will have a terrible disease in your intestines that will become worse every day. Finally it will cause your intestines to come out.”
16. The Lord caused the Philistines and the Arabs who lived near the Cushites to be angry with Jehoram.
17. So the Philistines and Arabs attacked Judah and carried away all the wealth of Jehoram’s palace, as well as his sons and wives. Only Jehoram’s youngest son, Ahaziah, was left.
18. After these things happened, the Lord gave Jehoram a disease in his intestines that could not be cured.
19. After he was sick for two years, Jehoram’s intestines came out because of the disease, and he died in terrible pain. The people did not make a fire to honor Jehoram as they had done for his ancestors.
20. Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he ruled eight years in Jerusalem. No one was sad when he died. He was buried in Jerusalem, but not in the graves for the kings.