12. And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith יְהוָ֥ה Elohim of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

13. But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, better than thyself:

14. Behold, with a great plague will יְהוָ֥ה smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:

15. And thou great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day.

16. Moreover יְהוָ֥ה stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that near the Ethiopians:

17. And they came up into Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.