2 Chronicles 21:14

Watch out, for the Lord is going to hit your people hard—your sons, your wives, and all that you own.

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In The King James Version

Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

In Context

13but instead you have followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and have made the people of Jerusalem unfaithful, and the people of Jerusalem as unfaithful as the family of Ahab. You have even killed your brothers, your father's family, who were better than you.

15You yourself will be struck with a terrible illness—a disease of the bowels which will get worse day by day until they come out.’”

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You must not bow down before them or worship them; for I am the Lord your God and I am passionately exclusive. I lay the consequences of the sin of those who hate me on their sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons;

Hosea 5:11The people of Ephraim are crushed, smashed to pieces in judgment because they were determined to follow human commands.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 21:13-20

Jehoram's Miserable End. ( b. c. 884.) 12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah, 13 But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: 14… Read the whole commentary →

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