Jehoram’s Disease and Death

The LORD stirs up Philistines and Arabs against Jehoram. They invade Judah, plunder the palace, and carry off his possessions, wives, and sons, leaving only the youngest, Jehoahaz.

T¹⁶hen the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites. ¹⁷So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.

After the invasion, the LORD strikes Jehoram with an incurable bowel disease that ends in prolonged agony and death. He is given no public honor, and though buried in the City of David, he is excluded from the kings’ tombs.

¹⁸After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. ¹⁹This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers. ²⁰Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.