Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
The verse belongs to Elijah's written message to Jehoram king of Judah, sent before Elijah was translated and while Jehoram of Israel was reigning after the death of Jehoshaphat. The message came because Jehoram of Judah had married the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and followed after Baal as did the house of Ahab, walking in the way of the kings of Israel and not in the ways of his father Jehoshaphat nor Asa king of Judah. He had made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication and compelled Judah thereto, so that Judah and Jerusalem went a whoring like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and he had slain his brethren of his father's house who were better than himself, and God would not permit such terrible apostasy to continue unreproved.
In the verse God announces judgment that with a great plague the Lord would smite Jehoram's people, children, wives, and all his goods, bringing calamity on his people, family, and possessions. The warning also declared that severe sickness would come upon Jehoram himself.
This threat was fulfilled when the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians near the Ethiopians, and they came up into Judah and broke into it and carried away all the substance found in the king's house with his sons and his wives. No son was left except his youngest son Jehoahaz, also called Ahaziah and Azariah. Afterward the Lord smote Jehoram himself in his bowels with an incurable disease, from which after two years he died.
The verse belongs to Elijah's written message to Jehoram king of Judah, sent before Elijah was translated and while Jehoram of Israel was reigning after the death of Jehoshaphat. The message came because Jehoram of Judah had married the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and followed after Baal as did the house of Ahab, walking in the way of the kings of Israel and not in the ways of his father Jehoshaphat nor Asa king of Judah. He had made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication and compelled Judah thereto, so that Judah and Jerusalem went a whoring like the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and he had slain his brethren of his father's house who were better than himself, and God would not permit such terrible apostasy to continue unreproved.
In the verse God announces judgment that with a great plague the Lord would smite Jehoram's people, children, wives, and all his goods, bringing calamity on his people, family, and possessions. The warning also declared that severe sickness would come upon Jehoram himself.
This threat was fulfilled when the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians near the Ethiopians, and they came up into Judah and broke into it and carried away all the substance found in the king's house with his sons and his wives. No son was left except his youngest son Jehoahaz, also called Ahaziah and Azariah. Afterward the Lord smote Jehoram himself in his bowels with an incurable disease, from which after two years he died.