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2 Chronicles 21:15

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by disease: This is supposed to have been a violent dysentery, a disease which is often attended with symptoms similar to those described in the text; by the same death perished Antiochus Ephiphenes, and Herod Agrippa. 2 Chronicles 21:18-19; Numbers 5:27; Deuteronomy 28:61; Acts 12:23

thy bowels fall: Psalms 109:18; Acts 1:18

the sickness: 2 Chronicles 21:18; Deuteronomy 28:27, Deuteronomy 28:37, Deuteronomy 28:59, Deuteronomy 28:67

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