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11 For he built high places in the cities of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit harlotry, and led Judah astray.
12 And there came to him a message in writing from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says the Lord God of your father David: Because you have not walked in the way of your father Jehoshaphat, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
13 but have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and have caused Judah and its inhabitants in Jerusalem to play the harlot, as the house of Ahab caused Israel to play the harlot, and you have slain your brethren, the sons of your father, who were better than yourself.
14 Behold, the Lord shall strike you with a great plague among your people, and your sons, and your wives, and all your possessions;
15 and you shall be afflicted with a grievous disease, with a disease of the bowels, until your bowels shall fall out day by day with the sickness.
16 So the Lord stirred up the Philistines against Jehoram, and the Arabians, and those who bordered on the Ethiopians;
17 and they went up against Judah, and prevailed against them, and took away all the possessions which they found in the house of the king, and his sons, and his daughters; and there was no son left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
18 And after all these things the Lord struck him in the bowels with an incurable disease.
19 And it continued from day to day. And after two years had passed by, his bowels fell out with the disease, and he died by a grievous distemper. And his people performed no funeral, like the funeral of his fathers.
20 He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed without honor, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.