Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:15
15. Great sickness by disease of thy bowels Appropriate punishment for him who had no “bowels of compassion” for his own brethren, who were better than himself. Jehoram’s “incurable disease,” as described in this verse and in 2 Chronicles 21:18-19, must have been of the most loathsome and excruciating character. “Trusen holds this disease to have been a violent dysentery, being an inflammation of the nervous tissue of the whole great intestine, which causes the overlying mucous membrane to... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 21:14
14. A great plague Margin, a great stroke. It was the judgment of disastrous war, as shown in 2 Chronicles 21:16-17. read more