2 Chronicles 21:14 “So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wi…”

2 Chronicles 21:14

So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

World English Bible

behold, the LORD will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions;

American Standard Version

behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wiues, and all thy substance,

Darby Translation

behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,

Young's Literal Translation

lo, Jehovah is smiting — a great smiting — among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods —

Bible in Basic English

Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

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Cross references

“plague”

Leviticus 26:21

Leviticus 26:21 · BSB

If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

“thy people”

Hosea 5:11 Micah 6:16

Hosea 5:11 · BSB

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.

Micah 6:16 · BSB

You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of th…

“thy children”

Exodus 20:5

Exodus 20:5 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.

15And day after day you yourself will suffer from a severe illness, a disease of your bowels, until it causes your bowels to come out.’”

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