2 Chronicles 21:19

19 In time, after two years, his intestines protruded because of his disease, and he suffered a most painful death. His people kindled no fire for him, as had been done for his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 21:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 21:19

And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of
two years
So long he was afflicted and tortured with the above disease:

his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness;
either in like manner as Judas's did, ( Acts 1:18 ) or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault ^F1; or perhaps only what was contained in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic:

so he died of sore diseases;
he seems to have had a complication of them, and these very painful and distressing:

and the people made no burning for him, like the burnings of his
fathers;
as they did for his grandfather Asa, ( 2 Chronicles 16:14 ) , they did not burn spices or odoriferous wood, as the Targum; though his body, because of the stench of it, needed it, as Jarchi observes.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 29, 30.

2 Chronicles 21:19 In-Context

17 and they came up to attack Y'hudah. They broke in and carried off all the personal property they could find in the royal palace, as well as his children and his wives; so that no son was left to him except Y'ho'achaz his youngest son.

18 After all this, ADONAI struck him in his intestines with an incurable disease.

19 In time, after two years, his intestines protruded because of his disease, and he suffered a most painful death. His people kindled no fire for him, as had been done for his ancestors.

20 He was thirty-two years old when he began his reign, he ruled in Yerushalayim for eight years, and he left without joy. They buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.