2 Chronicles 21:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor like the fires made for his ancestors.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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 the burning of his fathers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ In process of time, after two years, his bowels fell out because of his disease. So he died in severe distress. And his people made no funeral fire to honor him, like the fires for his fathers.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ For almost two years he grew steadily worse, until two days before his death, when his intestines fell out, causing him to die in horrible pain. His people didn’t make a fire in his honor as they had done for his ancestors.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And as day followed after day, and the space of time turned, the course of two years was completed. And after having been wasted by a long consumption, so much so that even his inner organs were discharged, the disease ended along with his life. And so he died of a very grievous illness. And the people did not make a funeral for him, according to the custom of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And as day came after day, and time rolled on, two whole years passed. Then after being wasted with a long consumption, so as to void his very bowels, his disease ended with his life. And he died of a most wretched illness; and the people did not make a funeral for him according to the manner of burning, as they had done for his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 21:19 Cross References

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.

2 Chronicles 21:15

and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels until your bowels come out, day after day, because of the disease.”

2 Chronicles 24:25

When they had withdrawn, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of the priest Jehoiada, and they killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

Jeremiah 34:5

you shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your ancestors, the earlier kings who preceded you, so they shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!” For I have spoken the word, says the Lord.