14 behold, the Lord will strike your people with a serious affliction—your children, your wives, and all your possessions;
15 and you willbecome very sick with a adisease of your intestines, until your intestines come out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
16 Moreover the aLordbstirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the cArabians who were near the Ethiopians.
17 And they came up into Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions that were found in the king’s house, and also ahis sons and his wives, so that there was not a son left to him except1 Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 After all this the Lord struck him ain his intestines with an incurable disease.
19 Then it happened in the course of time, after the end of two years, that his intestines came out because of his sickness; so he died in severe pain. And his people made no1 burning for him, like athe burning for his fathers.
The Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians - Probably Joktanian Arabs from the neighborhood of the Cushites. Southern Arabia was originally occupied by Cushites, or Ethiopians Genesis 10:7, whose descendants still exist in a remnant of the Himyaritic Arabs.
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