¹⁴ “ ‘Because of all this, the Lord will cause a great affliction to affect your people, your children, your wives, and all your property. ¹⁵ Moreover, you yourself will suffer greatly from a severe disease afflicting your bowels that will eventually cause them to protrude.’ ”

¹⁶ Then the Lord aroused against Jehoram the hostility of the Philistines and of the Arabs who dwelt near the Ethiopians.^[a]