2 Chronicles 21:14

Modern

So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.

Traditional

Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

Literal

…behold, YHWH will strike with a great affliction your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your possessions,

Latin

…ecce Dominus percutiet te plaga magna cum populo tuo, et filiis, et uxoribus tuis, universaque substantia tua.

Hebrew

English

So behold, the LORD is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a serious blow.

Elijah the prophet wrote a letter to Jehoram, warning him of punishment for his disobedience.

Theme notes and profiles

Leviticus 26:21
If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.
Micah 6:16
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”