12And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,
13But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:
14Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:
15And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.
16Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;
17And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.
18And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.
