2 Chronicles 21:17

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.

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.

20 He was thirty-two years old when he became king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight years and, to no one’s sorrow, departed. However they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

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Things got so bad that Elijah, who had been carried away in a whirlwind about seven or eight years before, felt compelled to send a letter to Jehoram.

The fact that Jehoram was not buried with the other kings indicates the regard in which he was held by his subjects. This tragedy began with a foolish marriage arrangement, which had tragic results for Judah, because Jehoram preferred to follow his evil wife rather than his godly father. Jehoram's evil was so pernicious—it just kept growing and growing—that the people refused to bury him with the other kings. He died unregretted and unlamented. No one cried at his death, yet this evil man is on the list of Christ forebears.

John W. Ritenbaugh
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