15. You yourself will be striken by multiple illnesses of your intestines, day after day, until your intestines drop out because of the illness.”
16. Then Adonai stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs that neighbored the Cushites.
17. They rose up against Judah, invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the royal palace, as well as his sons and his wives. No son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.
18. After all this, Adonai smote his intestines with an incurable disease,
19. and it continued day after day for two years, so that at the end his bowels fell out because of his sickness and he died in great agonies. His people made no fire in his honor like the fire of his fathers.
20. He was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years and he passed away, to no one’s regret. He was buried in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.