12 And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,
Thus says the Lord God of your father David:
Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have ^amade Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to ^bplay the harlot like the ^charlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have ^dkilled your brothers, those of your father’s household, who were better than yourself,  ‡

15 and you will become very sick with a ^adisease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.  ‡

16 Moreover the ^aLord ^bstirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the ^cArabians who were near the Ethiopians.  ‡