2 Chronicles 21:19

12-20 A warning from God was sent to Jehoram. The Spirit of prophecy might direct Elijah to prepare this writing in the foresight of Jehoram's crimes. He is plainly told that his sin should certainly ruin him. But no marvel that sinners are not frightened from sin, and to repentance, by the threatenings of misery in another world, when the certainty of misery in this world, the sinking of their estates, and the ruin of their health, will not restrain them from vicious courses. See Jehoram here stripped of all his comforts. Thus God plainly showed that the controversy was with him, and his house. He had slain all his brethren to strengthen himself; now, all his sons are slain but one. David's house must not be wholly destroyed, like those of Israel's kings, because a blessing was in it; that of the Messiah. Good men may be afflicted with diseases; but to them they are fatherly chastiseme...

Verse 2 Chronicles 21:19. _AFTER THE END OF TWO YEARS, HIS BOWELS FELL OUT_] The _Targum_ seems to intimate that he had a constipation and inflammation in his bowels; and that at last his bowels gushed out. _NO BURNING_] "His people made no burning of aromatic woods for him, as they had done for his forefathers." - _Targum_. See on 2 Chronicles 16:14....

EXPOSITION The matter of this chapter may be divided into four parts. The death and burial of Jehoshaphat, and the number, names, and position of his sons (2 Chronicles 21:1). The accession and wicked course of Jehoram, the eldest son (2 Chronicles 21:4). The written warning and denunciation of Elijah, and the very practical warning of the Philistines, etc. (2 Chronicles 21:12). The disease, death, and burial of Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:18-14). 2 Chronicles 21:1

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 a; 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 ste

3. DECLINE AND APOSTASY UNDER JEHORAM, AHAZIAH AND ATHALIAH CHAPTER 21 The Reign of Jehoram _ 1. Jehoram's wicked reign (2 Chronicles 21:1)_ 2. Revolt of Edom (2 Chronicles 21:8) 3. Revolt of Libnah (2 Chronicles 21:10) 4. The message of Elijah (2 Chronicles 21:12) 5. Judah invaded (2 Chronicles 21:16) 6. Jehoram's sickness and death (2 Chron

THE REIGN OF JEHORAM (see notes on 1 Kings 22:50; 2 Kings 8:17). A large part of this section has nothing corresponding to it in 1 and 2 K. 2 Chronicles 21:1. _Cf._ 1 Kings 22:50. 2 Chronicles 21:5. _Cf._ 2 Kings 8:17. 2 Chronicles 21:7. a lamp to him and...: the lamp is an expression symbolic of a ma

NO BURNING: i.e. of spices....

6. THE REIGN OF JEHORAM (2 Chronicles 21:5-20) TEXT 2 Chronicles 21:5. Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. 6. And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. 7. Howbeit Jehovah would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway. 8. In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves. 9. Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that compassed him about, and

21:19 sufferings. (g-38) Or 'diseases,' as Psalms 103:3 ....

REIGN OF JEHOKAM This chapter in part reproduces 2 Kings 8:17 but adds several particulars respecting the judgments brought upon Jehoram....