2nd Chronicles Chapter 21 verse 14 Holy Bible
behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;
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Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:
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behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,
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Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
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Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
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behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;
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lo, Jehovah is smiting -- a great smiting -- among thy people, and among thy sons, and among thy wives, and among all thy goods --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - A great plague; Hebrew, מַגֵּפָה, Out of the twenty-six occurrences of this word, it is rendered (Authorized Version) twenty-three times by the word "plague," twice by the word "slaughter" (2 Samuel 17:9; 2 Samuel 18:7), and once "stroke" (Ezekiel 24:16). It is not the word (גֶגַע) which about sixty times (chiefly in Leviticus)describes the physical plague, but both of the words are applied to the plagues, e.g. of Pharaoh, and to the suffering that came of any severe smiting of the people. As no physical affliction in the shape of disease visited, so far as we know, the people, wives, and children of the king, and as his goods are reckoned in for the great plague, the general opinion is probably the correct one, that the invasions spoken of (vers. 16, 17) fulfilled the punishment now announced.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people.--Literally, Behold, Jehovah is about to smite a great smiting in thy people and in thy sons. The immediate object of the verb is not expressed. (Comp. 2Chronicles 21:18.) It was Jehoram himself who was smitten in his people, and in his sons, and in his wives, and in all his goods, as 2Chronicles 21:17 shows. The "smiting "--i.e., heaven-sent stroke, or Divine visitation--consisted in an invasion of Philistines and Arabs, who sacked Jerusalem and the royal palace.
