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And a writing came to him from Elijah, the prophet, that said this: Thus hath the LORD, the God of David, thy father, said, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father nor in the ways of Asa, king of Judah,
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but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fornicate, like unto the fornication of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house,
who were better than thyself,
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behold, the LORD shall smite thy people with a great plague, and thy sons and thy wives and all thy goods;
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and thou
shalt have great sickness, with disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.
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Then the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians, that
were near the Ethiopians;
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and they came up against Judah and invaded the land and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also and his wives so that none of his sons remained except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
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And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
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And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like they had done for his fathers.