Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version So now the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives and everything that is yours, with a heavy blow. New Living Translation So now the LORD is about to strike you, your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a heavy blow. English Standard Version behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, Berean Standard Bible So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow. King James Bible Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods: New King James Version behold, the LORD will strike your people with a serious affliction—your children, your wives, and all your possessions; New American Standard Bible behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great plague; NASB 1995 behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity; NASB 1977 behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great calamity; Legacy Standard Bible behold, Yahweh is going to smite your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great calamity; Amplified Bible behold, the LORD is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a great disaster; Christian Standard Bible the LORD is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction. Holman Christian Standard Bible Yahweh is now about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a horrible affliction. American Standard Version behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance; Contemporary English Version Because you have done these terrible things, the LORD will severely punish the people in your kingdom, including your own family, and he will destroy everything you own. English Revised Version behold, the LORD will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance: GOD'S WORD® Translation The LORD will strike a great blow to your people, your sons, your wives, and all your property because you did this. Good News Translation As a result, the LORD will severely punish your people, your children, and your wives, and will destroy your possessions. International Standard Version Look what's going to happen! The LORD is going to strike your people, your children, your wives, and everything you own with a massive tragedy. Majority Standard Bible So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow. NET Bible So look, the LORD is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own. New Heart English Bible look, the LORD will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance; Webster's Bible Translation 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, Yahweh will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions; Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionbehold, YHWH is striking [with] a great striking among your people, and among your sons, and among your wives, and among all your goods— 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 -- Smith's Literal Translation Behold, Jehovah smote a great stroke upon thy people, and upon thy sons, and upon thy wives, and upon all thy possessions: Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleBehold the Lord will strike thee with a great plague, with all thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance. Catholic Public Domain Version behold, the Lord will strike you with a great plague, with all your people, and your sons and wives, and all your substance. New American Bible the LORD will strike your people, your children, your wives, and all that is yours with a great plague. New Revised Standard Version see, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleBehold, the LORD will smite you with a great plague, together with your people, your children, your wives, and all your goods; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Behold, LORD JEHOVAH strikes you and your people and your sons and your wives and all your goods with a great plague OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917behold, the LORD will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance; Brenton Septuagint Translation behold, the Lord shall smite thee with a great plague among thy people, and thy sons, and thy wives, and all thy store: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Elijah's Letter to Jehoram…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. 14So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow. 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.’ ”… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:15-20 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: / You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country. / Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed. ... Leviticus 26:14-16 If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments, / and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant, / then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 1 Kings 14:10 Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone! 2 Kings 9:7-9 And you are to strike down the house of your master Ahab, so that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets and the blood of all the servants of the LORD shed by the hand of Jezebel. / The whole house of Ahab will perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male, both slave and free, in Israel. / I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah. Jeremiah 19:3-4 saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring, / because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. Amos 3:2 “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” Isaiah 5:25 Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lie like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised. Ezekiel 14:12-13 And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, / “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast, Hosea 4:3 Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear. Micah 6:13 Therefore I am striking you severely, to ruin you because of your sins. Revelation 2:22-23 Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds. / Then I will strike her children dead, and all the churches will know that I am the One who searches minds and hearts, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. Matthew 23:35-36 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. / Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. Luke 21:22-24 For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. / How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people. / They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Galatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Treasury of Scripture Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your goods: plague [heb] stroke Leviticus 26:21 And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins. Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. Micah 6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people. thy children Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Jump to Previous Blow Calamity Children Destruction Goods Great Heavy Plague Possessions Smite Smiting Strike Substance WivesJump to Next Blow Calamity Children Destruction Goods Great Heavy Plague Possessions Smite Smiting Strike Substance Wives2 Chronicles 21 1. Jehoram, succeeding Jehoshaphat, slays his brothers5. His wicked reign 8. Edom and Libnah revolt 12. The prophecy of Elijah against him in writing 16. Philistines and Arabians oppress him 18. His incurable disease, infamous death, and burial So now This phrase indicates an immediate consequence or action that is about to take place. In the Hebrew context, it suggests a transition from warning to execution of judgment. The urgency in "now" reflects the immediacy of God's response to sin, emphasizing His active role in the affairs of men. It serves as a reminder of the divine timeline, which operates according to God's perfect wisdom and justice. the LORD is about to strike your people your sons your wives and all your possessions with a severe plague Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew So behold,הִנֵּ֣ה (hin·nêh) Interjection Strong's 2009: Lo! behold! the LORD יְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel is about to strike נֹגֵ֛ף (nō·ḡêp̄) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5062: To push, gore, defeat, stub, inflict your people, בְּעַמֶּ֑ךָ (bə·‘am·me·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock your sons, וּבְבָנֶ֥יךָ (ū·ḇə·ḇā·ne·ḵā) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 1121: A son your wives, וּבְנָשֶׁ֖יךָ (ū·ḇə·nā·še·ḵā) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female and all וּבְכָל־ (ū·ḇə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every your possessions רְכוּשֶֽׁךָ׃ (rə·ḵū·še·ḵā) Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 7399: Property, goods with a serious גְדוֹלָ֖ה (ḡə·ḏō·w·lāh) Adjective - feminine singular Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent blow. מַגֵּפָ֥ה (mag·gê·p̄āh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 4046: A blow, slaughter, plague, pestilence Links 2 Chronicles 21:14 NIV2 Chronicles 21:14 NLT 2 Chronicles 21:14 ESV 2 Chronicles 21:14 NASB 2 Chronicles 21:14 KJV 2 Chronicles 21:14 BibleApps.com 2 Chronicles 21:14 Biblia Paralela 2 Chronicles 21:14 Chinese Bible 2 Chronicles 21:14 French Bible 2 Chronicles 21:14 Catholic Bible OT History: 2 Chronicles 21:14 Behold Yahweh will strike with a great (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) |