14. behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,
15. and you yourself will be afflicted with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.’ ”
16. And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who were near the Cushites against Jehoram.
17. And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son.
18. And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for which there was no cure.
19. And it happened that after many days, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of his illness, and he died in terrible agony. And his people did not make a fire for him like the fire for his ancestors.
20. He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings.