2 Chronicles 21:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶Some Philistines and Arabs lived near where some Ethiopians^[a] had settled along the coast. The Lord caused them to go to war against Jehoram. ¹⁷They invaded Judah, looted the royal palace, and carried off as prisoners all the king's wives and sons except Ahaziah, his youngest son.

¹⁸Then after all this, the Lord brought on the king a painful disease of the intestines.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 21:16 Hebrew Cushites: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).