12. And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying,“Thus says the Lord God of David your father: Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
13. but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father’s house, who were better than you,
14. the Lord will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions;
15. and you will have great sickness with a disease of your intestines, until your intestines come out because of the disease, day by day.”
16. Then the Lord stirred up the spirit of the Philistines against Jehoram and also the Arabians who were near the Cushites.
17. And they went up against Judah and broke through, and they took every possession found in the palace of the king, even his sons and wives, so that no son was left with him except his youngest Ahaziah.
18. And after all this, the Lord struck him in his entrails with an incurable disease.
19. And it happened after many days, at the end of two years, his entrails came out due to his disease, so he died by a despicable disease. And his people did not make for him a memorial fire like the fire for his fathers.
20. He was thirty-two when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.